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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: The Final Resting Place of the Future.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the companies in Texas that sells apocalyptic dwellings is called Trident what?
(a) Market.
(b) Views.
(c) Valley.
(d) Lakes.

2. In what year did Doomsday Preppers exit the cultural scene?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2016.
(c) 2019.
(d) 2014.

3. Which family member told O'Connell all about the nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States?
(a) His brother.
(b) His father.
(c) His cousin.
(d) His uncle.

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

5. What kind of artist was the man who served as O'Connell's son's first example of an auteur?
(a) A choreographer.
(b) A painter.
(c) A film director.
(d) A writer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which term, meaning self-settlers, do Ukranians use to designate the remaining permanent residents of the Zone?

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

4. O'Connell acknowledges in Chapter 1: Tribulations that which of his own actions hastens the end of the world?

5. At the time when the show aired depicting Elon Musk and his son, for how many years had NASA's space shuttle program been defunct?

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