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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. People from what area of the world appear to be buying up large swaths of land in New Zealand?
(a) Egypt.
(b) The Bermuda Triangle.
(c) Silicon Valley.
(d) The Midwestern United States.

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

3. O'Connell depicts a time when he investigated a special niche of what sector?
(a) Real estate.
(b) Investment.
(c) Banking.
(d) Travel.

4. What kind of emaciated animal was featured in the video O'Connell describes?
(a) A penguin.
(b) An elephant.
(c) A polar bear.
(d) An ostrich.

5. One of the companies in Texas that sells apocalyptic dwellings is called Trident what?
(a) Lakes.
(b) Market.
(c) Views.
(d) Valley.

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

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

4. What new quality does O'Connell ascribe to the modern version of the apocalypse?

5. What does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?

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