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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. Chapter 3: Luxury Survival describes O'Connell's trip to which state?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Utah.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) South Dakota.

2. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?
(a) Meme.
(b) Looming crisis.
(c) Climate change.
(d) Help.

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

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

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)?
(a) Esoteric.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Erroneous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. O'Connell concludes in Chapter 2: Preparations that rather than preparing for their fears, doomsday preppers are preparing for their what?

3. The founder of the American Redoubt movement wrote what kind of publication?

4. In what year did Doomsday Preppers exit the cultural scene?

5. What is the name of the company O'Connell deems unworthy of existence?

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