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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. O'Connell discusses a piece of what type of media that went viral around the time he went to visit an apocalyptic compound?
(a) A journal entry.
(b) A painting.
(c) A photograph.
(d) A cassette tape.

2. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?
(a) Despair.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Bewilderment.

3. 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 Black Hills.
(b) The Mojave Desert.
(c) Niagara Falls.
(d) The Bermuda Triangle.

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

5. The founder of the American Redoubt movement wrote what kind of publication?
(a) A manifesto.
(b) A book.
(c) A pamphlet.
(d) A bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connell discusses seeing a man performing what action on the street corner as he took no notice of anyone around him?

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. At what altitude did the compound lie that O'Connell visited during his investigation of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?

4. What was the name of the luxury apocalyptic compound O'Connell visited?

5. 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)?

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