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

2. 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.

3. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?
(a) Help.
(b) Climate change.
(c) Looming crisis.
(d) Meme.

4. When Chapter 5: Off-World Colony begins, O'Connell discusses an episode of which television show?
(a) Mars.
(b) Venus.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Jupiter.

5. What kind of emaciated animal was featured in the video O'Connell describes?
(a) An ostrich.
(b) A polar bear.
(c) A penguin.
(d) An elephant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was O'Connell's son at the time of the events described in Chapter 1: Tribulations?

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

3. What is the first name of Vicino, the man O'Connell calls a real estate magnate for the end of days?

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

5. When Chapter 1: Tribulations opens, O'Connell describes watching what type of television show with his son?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O'Connell acknowledge that colonialism has brought about its own kind of apocalypse?

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

3. Who is James Wesley Rawles?

4. In what way does the theme of delusion arise within Chapter 1: Tribulations?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. Discuss an instance of irony within the text.

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