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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. For what length of time did O'Connell immerse himself in the online world of doomsday prepping?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 1 month.

2. O'Connell recalls looking at what type of object over his son's head while also watching television with him?
(a) A tablet.
(b) A phone.
(c) A clock.
(d) A laptop.

3. Upon seeing an old man dancing in Glendale, O'Connell thinks about a boy he had seen dancing by the river in which state?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) South Dakota.

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)?
(a) Paranoia.
(b) America.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Despair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?

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

3. How many theories does O'Connell have about the correlation between doomsday preppers and their sunglasses?

4. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?

5. What adjective does O'Connell use in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" to describe the shape of the traditional Ghost Dance?

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