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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many days in total did O'Connell spend in Auckland, New Zealand?
(a) 3.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 5.

3. The founder of the American Redoubt movement estimated that the average family in the United States had enough food to last for how long?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 1 week.

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

5. In what month did O'Connell arrive at the airport where his friend Anthony then picked him up?
(a) June.
(b) November.
(c) March.
(d) January.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of landmark is Mount Eden, the location to which Anthony took O'Connell immediately upon picking him up at the airport?

2. O'Connell acknowledges in Chapter 1: Tribulations that which of his own actions hastens the end of the world?

3. For what length of time did O'Connell immerse himself in the online world of doomsday prepping?

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

5. The Ghost Dance described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" was intended to consume which group of people?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss one main theme presented in the epigraph section of Mark O'Connell's book Notes from an Apocalypse.

2. How does O'Connell use specific word choice to mirror the themes of the text?

3. What distinction does O'Connell make between fear and fantasy within Chapter 2: Preparations?

4. Discuss an instance of irony within the text.

5. To what location did O'Connell travel around the time when nuclear tensions were rising between the United States and North Korea?

6. What element of life does O'Connell call "the last remaining truth" (4) and why?

7. What was the intended purpose of the Ghost Dance in relation to colonialism?

8. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell discusses a period of time when he repeated a word over and over to himself. What was the word and what was behind his behavior?

9. Discuss an instance when O'Connell invokes the use of sensory details.

10. What is Mount Eden?

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