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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 states at the end of Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" that "from the Native point of view," what "was in any case a matter of historical record" (131)?
(a) Assimilation.
(b) The apocalypse.
(c) A pandemic.
(d) Genocide.

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?
(a) Civilization itself.
(b) The economy.
(c) The family.
(d) The nation-state.

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

4. O'Connell depicts a time when he investigated a special niche of what sector?
(a) Travel.
(b) Investment.
(c) Real estate.
(d) Banking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the last name of O'Connell's friend Anthony?

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

3. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?

4. O'Connell acknowledges in Chapter 1: Tribulations that which of his own actions hastens the end of the world?

5. O'Connell declares in Chapter 1: Tribulations that "the last remaining truth is the supreme fiction of" (4) what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O'Connell use specific word choice to mirror the themes of the text?

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

3. What element of life does O'Connell call "the last remaining truth" (4) and why?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. Who is James Wesley Rawles?

10. With what culture is the Ghost Dance associated?

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