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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?

2. What new quality does O'Connell ascribe to the modern version of the apocalypse?

3. How many theories does O'Connell have about the correlation between doomsday preppers and their sunglasses?

4. One of the companies in Texas that sells apocalyptic dwellings is called Trident what?

5. The founder of the American Redoubt movement estimated that the average family in the United States had enough food to last for how long?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. With what culture is the Ghost Dance associated?

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

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

7. Discuss an instance of irony within the text.

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

9. What type of event did O'Connell attend in order to learn about the Mars Society?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is one of O'Connell's central messages regarding a shift in worldview that needs to occur for a particular group of people and why?

Essay Topic 2

Examine how O'Connell goes about connecting personal experience with the arguments put forth within Notes From an Apocalypse. How does O'Connell accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?

Essay Topic 3

How does O'Connell’s use of the first and second person point of view serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how O'Connell’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.

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