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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 is NOT a quality O'Connell attributes to the old man he saw dancing while stopped at a red light in Glendale?
(a) An earring.
(b) Long hair.
(c) A beard.
(d) A pair of headphones.

2. To what location did Mark O'Connell travel when he visited a famous set of hills, as described in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival?
(a) The Bermuda Triangle.
(b) Niagara Falls.
(c) The Black Hills.
(d) The Mojave Desert.

3. In what year did Doomsday Preppers emerge onto the cultural scene?
(a) 2011.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2012.

4. In what year did Doomsday Preppers exit the cultural scene?
(a) 2019.
(b) 2014.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2016.

5. The Ghost Dance described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" was intended to consume which group of people?
(a) Puritans.
(b) Colonizers.
(c) Magistrates.
(d) Policemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?

2. What is the last name of O'Connell's friend Anthony?

3. For what length of time did O'Connell immerse himself in the online world of doomsday prepping?

4. During O'Connell's study of the doomsday prepping movement, he came to see the movement as "a hysterical symptom of" what "itself" (20)?

5. In Texas alone, there are how many purveyors of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?

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