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

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

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

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

5. What was the name of the luxury apocalyptic compound O'Connell visited?
(a) MPoint.
(b) XPoint.
(c) LPoint.
(d) QPoint.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?

2. When Chapter 5: Off-World Colony begins, O'Connell discusses an episode of which television show?

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

5. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the video of the emaciated polar bear symbolize according to O'Connell?

2. What sight does O'Connell describe seeing in Glendale and what significance does he find in the sight?

3. To what location did O'Connell travel one November, as described in Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole?

4. 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?

5. What evidence does O'Connell provide for his conclusion that human anxiety is building?

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

7. What evidence does O'Connell provide for his conclusion that the luxury apocalpyptic compound business is booming?

8. What main theme do all of the pieces within Notes from an Apocalypse revolve?

9. Who is James Wesley Rawles?

10. For what reason does O'Connell allude to a television show called Mars in Chapter 5: Off-World Colony?

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