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

2. What does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?
(a) Radius.
(b) Ratio.
(c) Rule.
(d) Regression.

3. For what purpose is a particular group of people buying land in New Zealand?
(a) To build biodomes.
(b) To raise livestock.
(c) To survive the apocalypse.
(d) To provide rental income.

4. O'Connell links the boy and the old man described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" and imagines that there is "some vast collective of lone" what kind of "dancers" (131)?
(a) Erroneous.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Esoteric.

5. How many practical guidebooks about preparing for the end of the world did O'Connell read during his long period of study?
(a) Scores.
(b) Dozens.
(c) None.
(d) A handful.

Short Answer Questions

1. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?

2. What does the Spanish word vivos mean in English?

3. Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole describes O'Connell's arrival in what location?

4. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?

5. Participants in the Ghost Dance are said to have believed that their dancing would hasten which event?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the intended purpose of the Ghost Dance in relation to colonialism?

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

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

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

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

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

7. With what culture is the Ghost Dance associated?

8. What evidence does O'Connell provide for his conclusion that the luxury apocalpyptic compound business is booming?

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

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

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