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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new quality does O'Connell ascribe to the modern version of the apocalypse?
(a) Slowness.
(b) Tenuousness.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Rapidity.

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

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

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

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

6. How old was O'Connell's son at the time of the events described in Chapter 1: Tribulations?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 11.
(d) 3.

7. 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 collection of wealth.
(d) The end of the world.

8. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?
(a) Confusion.
(b) Bewilderment.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Despair.

9. Which annual gathering of the Mars Society did O'Connell attend in Los Angeles?
(a) The 16th.
(b) The 13th.
(c) The 45th.
(d) The 21st.

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

11. What is the name of the company O'Connell deems unworthy of existence?
(a) Vivos.
(b) Mina.
(c) Jungletown.
(d) Lagos.

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

13. At what location did Elon Musk speak alongside his son on a television show seen by O'Connell?
(a) Cape Canaveral.
(b) The Kennedy Space Station.
(c) The Great Pyramids.
(d) The Washington Monument.

14. What kind of emaciated animal was featured in the video O'Connell describes?
(a) An elephant.
(b) A penguin.
(c) A polar bear.
(d) An ostrich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?

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

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

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?

5. One of the companies in Texas that sells apocalyptic dwellings is called Trident what?

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