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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. O'Connell claims that doomsday preppers and their actions are completely devoid of which human element?
(a) Tranquility.
(b) Anger.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Altruism.

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

3. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?
(a) 5 or 6.
(b) 8 or 9.
(c) 13 or 14.
(d) 11 or 12.

4. What type of sunglasses does O'Connell associate with the doomsday prepping community?
(a) Mirrored.
(b) Polarized.
(c) Aviator.
(d) Wraparound.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what location did Mark O'Connell travel when he visited a famous set of hills, as described in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival?

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 does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?

4. 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?

5. O'Connell discusses a piece of media called Doomsday Preppers. What was it?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is James Wesley Rawles?

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

7. Discuss an instance of irony within the text.

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

9. What is Mount Eden?

10. What does the acronym WROL stand for within the prepping movement?

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