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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. O'Connell claims that doomsday preppers and their actions are completely devoid of which human element?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Altruism.
(c) Tranquility.
(d) Anger.

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

8. O'Connell wonders how humans are supposed to take what action when we know that we are likely doomed?
(a) To live.
(b) To smile.
(c) To breathe easily.
(d) To laugh.

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

10. What is the last name of O'Connell's friend Anthony?
(a) Byrts.
(b) Miller.
(c) Boyd.
(d) Michaels.

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

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

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

14. 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) The Mojave Desert.
(d) Niagara Falls.

15. O'Connell links the boy and the old man described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" and imagines that there is "some vast collective of lone" what kind of "dancers" (131)?
(a) Metaphysical.
(b) Esoteric.
(c) Erroneous.
(d) Ecstatic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Texas alone, there are how many purveyors of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?

3. What is NOT a quality O'Connell attributes to the old man he saw dancing while stopped at a red light in Glendale?

4. At what altitude did the compound lie that O'Connell visited during his investigation of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?

5. In what month did O'Connell arrive at the airport where his friend Anthony then picked him up?

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