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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2018.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2008.

2. O'Connell recalls looking at what type of object over his son's head while also watching television with him?
(a) A laptop.
(b) A tablet.
(c) A clock.
(d) A phone.

3. What adjective does O'Connell use in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" to describe the shape of the traditional Ghost Dance?
(a) Elliptical.
(b) Circular.
(c) Rectangular.
(d) Square.

4. Upon seeing an old man dancing in Glendale, O'Connell thinks about a boy he had seen dancing by the river in which state?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) South Dakota.
(d) Maryland.

5. 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) Paranoia.
(c) America.
(d) Despair.

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

7. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?
(a) Minimizing it.
(b) Hastening it.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Warping it.

8. 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) Erroneous.
(b) Esoteric.
(c) Ecstatic.
(d) Metaphysical.

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

10. In what month did O'Connell arrive at the airport where his friend Anthony then picked him up?
(a) March.
(b) June.
(c) November.
(d) January.

11. 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.

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

13. 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) 2,400 feet.
(d) 700 feet.

14. Around the time depicted in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, the United States and which country were at odds around nuclear weapons?
(a) Iran.
(b) Russia.
(c) North Korea.
(d) Turkey.

15. O'Connell acknowledges in Chapter 1: Tribulations that which of his own actions hastens the end of the world?
(a) Study.
(b) Introspection.
(c) Travel.
(d) Medical care.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade of life was Anthony at the time he fetched O'Connell from the airport near his home?

2. In what year did Doomsday Preppers emerge onto the cultural scene?

3. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?

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

5. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?

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