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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 decade of life was Anthony at the time he fetched O'Connell from the airport near his home?
(a) 40s.
(b) 20s.
(c) 30s.
(d) 50s.

2. What noun does O'Connell use to describe the unrelenting nature of the modern version of the apocalypse?
(a) Flames.
(b) Horsemen.
(c) Waves.
(d) Circles of hell.

3. The founder of the American Redoubt movement estimated that the average family in the United States had enough food to last for how long?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 1 month.

4. At what location did Elon Musk speak alongside his son on a television show seen by O'Connell?
(a) The Kennedy Space Station.
(b) Cape Canaveral.
(c) The Great Pyramids.
(d) The Washington Monument.

5. Which annual gathering of the Mars Society did O'Connell attend in Los Angeles?
(a) The 16th.
(b) The 45th.
(c) The 21st.
(d) The 13th.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 1: Tribulations, O'Connell asserts that his carbon footprint is as deep and wide as his what?

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

4. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. What is Mount Eden?

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

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

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