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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole, and Chapter 5: Off-World Colony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?
(a) CEO.
(b) Founder.
(c) Investor.
(d) Director.

2. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?
(a) Minimizing it.
(b) Hastening it.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Warping it.

3. What was the name of the luxury apocalyptic compound O'Connell visited?
(a) MPoint.
(b) LPoint.
(c) XPoint.
(d) QPoint.

4. In the book How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Rawles predicts the collapse of all but which of the following entities?
(a) The economy.
(b) Civilization itself.
(c) The family.
(d) The nation-state.

5. When Chapter 5: Off-World Colony begins, O'Connell discusses an episode of which television show?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Mars.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Venus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last name of the man named James Wesley who founded a movement called American Redoubt?

2. Chapter 3: Luxury Survival describes O'Connell's trip to which state?

3. People from what area of the world appear to be buying up large swaths of land in New Zealand?

4. O'Connell acknowledges in Chapter 1: Tribulations that which of his own actions hastens the end of the world?

5. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?

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