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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last name of O'Connell's friend Anthony?
(a) Michaels.
(b) Miller.
(c) Boyd.
(d) Byrts.

2. What is NOT a quality O'Connell attributes to the old man he saw dancing while stopped at a red light in Glendale?
(a) A beard.
(b) A pair of headphones.
(c) An earring.
(d) Long hair.

3. O'Connell discusses seeing a man performing what action on the street corner as he took no notice of anyone around him?
(a) Juggling.
(b) Laughing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Singing.

4. In what decade of life was Anthony at the time he fetched O'Connell from the airport near his home?
(a) 40s.
(b) 20s.
(c) 50s.
(d) 30s.

5. What does the Spanish word vivos mean in English?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Breath.
(c) Living.
(d) Meaning.

6. In what branch of the military did the founder of the American Redoubt movement serve?
(a) Coast Guard.
(b) Air Force.
(c) Navy.
(d) Army.

7. What role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?
(a) Founder.
(b) Investor.
(c) Director.
(d) CEO.

8. O'Connell discusses a piece of media called Doomsday Preppers. What was it?
(a) A television show.
(b) A video game.
(c) A book.
(d) A movie.

9. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?
(a) Finite.
(b) Useless.
(c) Stop.
(d) Collapse.

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

11. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?
(a) The 3rd.
(b) The 5th.
(c) The 13th.
(d) The 9th.

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

13. 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?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

14. In Texas alone, there are how many purveyors of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

15. The Ghost Dance described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" was intended to consume which group of people?
(a) Magistrates.
(b) Policemen.
(c) Colonizers.
(d) Puritans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which annual gathering of the Mars Society did O'Connell attend in Los Angeles?

2. What type of landmark is Mount Eden, the location to which Anthony took O'Connell immediately upon picking him up at the airport?

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

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

5. What does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?

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