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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 discusses seeing a man performing what action on the street corner as he took no notice of anyone around him?
(a) Laughing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Juggling.
(d) Singing.

2. In what month did O'Connell arrive at the airport where his friend Anthony then picked him up?
(a) June.
(b) March.
(c) January.
(d) November.

3. Upon seeing an old man dancing in Glendale, O'Connell thinks about a boy he had seen dancing by the river in which state?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Kentucky.

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?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Texas alone, there are how many purveyors of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?

3. What adjective does O'Connell use in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" to describe the shape of the traditional Ghost Dance?

4. What does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?

5. What kind of emaciated animal was featured in the video O'Connell describes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Discuss an instance of irony within the text.

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

5. What is Mount Eden?

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

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

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

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

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

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