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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. Participants in the Ghost Dance are said to have believed that their dancing would hasten which event?
(a) A rainstorm.
(b) The end of the world.
(c) The collection of wealth.
(d) Human flight.

2. For what purpose is a particular group of people buying land in New Zealand?
(a) To survive the apocalypse.
(b) To build biodomes.
(c) To provide rental income.
(d) To raise livestock.

3. At what location did Elon Musk speak alongside his son on a television show seen by O'Connell?
(a) The Washington Monument.
(b) The Great Pyramids.
(c) The Kennedy Space Station.
(d) Cape Canaveral.

4. O'Connell states at the end of Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" that "from the Native point of view," what "was in any case a matter of historical record" (131)?
(a) A pandemic.
(b) The apocalypse.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Assimilation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which family member told O'Connell all about the nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States?

2. O'Connell discusses a piece of what type of media that went viral around the time he went to visit an apocalyptic compound?

3. What is NOT a quality O'Connell attributes to the old man he saw dancing while stopped at a red light in Glendale?

4. The Ghost Dance described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" was intended to consume which group of people?

5. To what location did Mark O'Connell travel when he visited a famous set of hills, as described in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival?

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