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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapter 3: Luxury Survival describes O'Connell's trip to which state?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Utah.
(c) South Dakota.
(d) New Mexico.

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

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

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

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

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

8. For what purpose is a particular group of people buying land in New Zealand?
(a) To build biodomes.
(b) To survive the apocalypse.
(c) To provide rental income.
(d) To raise livestock.

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

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

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

12. O'Connell discusses a piece of what type of media that went viral around the time he went to visit an apocalyptic compound?
(a) A photograph.
(b) A journal entry.
(c) A cassette tape.
(d) A painting.

13. 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.

14. 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) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 4.
(d) 9.

15. The founder of the American Redoubt movement wrote what kind of publication?
(a) A manifesto.
(b) A book.
(c) A pamphlet.
(d) A bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Participants in the Ghost Dance are said to have believed that their dancing would hasten which event?

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

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

4. What adjective does O'Connell use in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" to describe the shape of the traditional Ghost Dance?

5. O'Connell recalls looking at what type of object over his son's head while also watching television with him?

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