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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 branch of the military did the founder of the American Redoubt movement serve?
(a) Coast Guard.
(b) Navy.
(c) Army.
(d) Air Force.

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

3. What is the last name of the man named James Wesley who founded a movement called American Redoubt?
(a) Miller.
(b) Rawles.
(c) Jones.
(d) Dawes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does O'Connell use to describe the effect of the online discourse on reality?

2. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?

3. What primary emotion did O'Connell feel when he watched the video of the emaciated animal?

4. In what year did Doomsday Preppers exit the cultural scene?

5. 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?

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 acknowledge that colonialism has brought about its own kind of apocalypse?

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

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

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

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

7. With what culture is the Ghost Dance associated?

8. What type of event did O'Connell attend in order to learn about the Mars Society?

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

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

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