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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) Long hair.
(b) A pair of headphones.
(c) An earring.
(d) A beard.

2. Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole describes O'Connell's arrival in what location?
(a) Boston.
(b) Auckland.
(c) Perth.
(d) New York City.

3. How many days in total did O'Connell spend in Auckland, New Zealand?
(a) 5.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 3.

4. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?
(a) Stop.
(b) Collapse.
(c) Useless.
(d) Finite.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time when the show aired depicting Elon Musk and his son, for how many years had NASA's space shuttle program been defunct?

2. O'Connell discusses a piece of media called Doomsday Preppers. What was it?

3. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?

4. O'Connell links the boy and the old man described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" and imagines that there is "some vast collective of lone" what kind of "dancers" (131)?

5. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?

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