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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connell declares in Chapter 1: Tribulations that "the last remaining truth is the supreme fiction of" (4) what?
(a) Time.
(b) Country.
(c) Money.
(d) Individual identity.

2. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?
(a) Hockey.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Golf.
(d) Diving.

3. When Chapter 1: Tribulations opens, O'Connell describes watching what type of television show with his son?
(a) Cartoons.
(b) News.
(c) Mysteries.
(d) Telenovellas.

4. In the book How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Rawles predicts the collapse of all but which of the following entities?
(a) Civilization itself.
(b) The economy.
(c) The nation-state.
(d) The family.

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

6. The founder of the American Redoubt movement estimated that the average family in the United States had enough food to last for how long?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 3 days.

7. O'Connell concludes in Chapter 2: Preparations that rather than preparing for their fears, doomsday preppers are preparing for their what?
(a) Tribulations.
(b) Fantasies.
(c) Futures.
(d) Survival.

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

9. 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) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

10. 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) South Dakota.
(b) Maryland.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Alabama.

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

12. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?
(a) 11 or 12.
(b) 5 or 6.
(c) 13 or 14.
(d) 8 or 9.

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

14. O'Connell states at the end of Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" that "from the Native point of view," what "was in any case a matter of historical record" (131)?
(a) The apocalypse.
(b) A pandemic.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Assimilation.

15. Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole describes O'Connell's arrival in what location?
(a) New York City.
(b) Boston.
(c) Auckland.
(d) Perth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Spanish word vivos mean in English?

2. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?

3. What is the first name of Vicino, the man O'Connell calls a real estate magnate for the end of days?

4. O'Connell depicts a time when he investigated a special niche of what sector?

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

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