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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. In what year did Doomsday Preppers emerge onto the cultural scene?

2. What group of people uses the term "bug-out bag" (19)?

3. How many practical guidebooks about preparing for the end of the world did O'Connell read during his long period of study?

4. O'Connell states that as a parent, he feels "a moral duty to be deluded about" (4) what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What main theme do all of the pieces within Notes from an Apocalypse revolve?

3. How does O'Connell acknowledge that colonialism has brought about its own kind of apocalypse?

4. Discuss an instance of irony within the text.

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss O'Connell’s use of Aristotle's appeals within the text of Notes From an Apocalypse. How does O'Connell use each of the three appeals to persuade the reader of argumentative points central to the tenets of the work?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within O'Connell's book Notes From an Apocalypse.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the final passages included at the end of Notes From an Apocalypse.

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