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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT a quality O'Connell attributes to the old man he saw dancing while stopped at a red light in Glendale?
(a) A beard.
(b) An earring.
(c) A pair of headphones.
(d) Long hair.

2. O'Connell depicts a time when he investigated a special niche of what sector?
(a) Investment.
(b) Real estate.
(c) Travel.
(d) Banking.

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

4. In what year did Doomsday Preppers exit the cultural scene?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2019.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2003.

5. What is the last name of the man named James Wesley who founded a movement called American Redoubt?
(a) Jones.
(b) Dawes.
(c) Rawles.
(d) Miller.

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

7. 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.

8. What group of people uses the term "bug-out bag" (19)?
(a) Artists.
(b) Entymologists.
(c) Vegans.
(d) Preppers.

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

10. What noun does O'Connell use to describe the unrelenting nature of the modern version of the apocalypse?
(a) Horsemen.
(b) Flames.
(c) Circles of hell.
(d) Waves.

11. In what year did Doomsday Preppers emerge onto the cultural scene?
(a) 2006.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2011.

12. What primary emotion did O'Connell feel when he watched the video of the emaciated animal?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Regret.
(c) Trepidation.
(d) Disgust.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?

2. Around the time depicted in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, the United States and which country were at odds around nuclear weapons?

3. Upon seeing an old man dancing in Glendale, O'Connell thinks about a boy he had seen dancing by the river in which state?

4. 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?

5. People from what area of the world appear to be buying up large swaths of land in New Zealand?

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