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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many practical guidebooks about preparing for the end of the world did O'Connell read during his long period of study?
(a) A handful.
(b) Dozens.
(c) None.
(d) Scores.

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

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

5. When Chapter 5: Off-World Colony begins, O'Connell discusses an episode of which television show?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Venus.
(c) Mars.
(d) Pluto.

6. How many theories does O'Connell have about the correlation between doomsday preppers and their sunglasses?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

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

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

10. 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) The family.
(b) The economy.
(c) The nation-state.
(d) Civilization itself.

11. Participants in the Ghost Dance are said to have believed that their dancing would hasten which event?
(a) A rainstorm.
(b) Human flight.
(c) The end of the world.
(d) The collection of wealth.

12. To what location did Mark O'Connell travel when he visited a famous set of hills, as described in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival?
(a) The Bermuda Triangle.
(b) The Black Hills.
(c) Niagara Falls.
(d) The Mojave Desert.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. O'Connell states that as a parent, he feels "a moral duty to be deluded about" (4) what?

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

5. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?

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