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

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

3. What role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?
(a) CEO.
(b) Director.
(c) Founder.
(d) Investor.

4. In Texas alone, there are how many purveyors of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is the last name of the man named James Wesley who founded a movement called American Redoubt?

4. The founder of the American Redoubt movement wrote what kind of publication?

5. What is the name of the company O'Connell deems unworthy of existence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss an instance of irony within the text.

4. What quality sets apart the modern conception of the apocalypse from the older versions?

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

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

9. Who is James Wesley Rawles?

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

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