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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. 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.

2. O'Connell states that as a parent, he feels "a moral duty to be deluded about" (4) what?
(a) Financial solvency.
(b) The future.
(c) The battle between good and evil.
(d) World peace.

3. At what altitude did the compound lie that O'Connell visited during his investigation of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?
(a) 1,600 feet.
(b) 3,800 feet.
(c) 700 feet.
(d) 2,400 feet.

4. When Chapter 5: Off-World Colony begins, O'Connell discusses an episode of which television show?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Venus.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Mars.

5. O'Connell wonders how humans are supposed to take what action when we know that we are likely doomed?
(a) To smile.
(b) To live.
(c) To breathe easily.
(d) To laugh.

Short Answer 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?

2. For what purpose is a particular group of people buying land in New Zealand?

3. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?

4. In Chapter 1: Tribulations, O'Connell asserts that his carbon footprint is as deep and wide as his what?

5. Participants in the Ghost Dance are said to have believed that their dancing would hasten which event?

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