Notes From an Apocalypse Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Mark O'Connell
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 133 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Notes From an Apocalypse Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Mark O'Connell
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 133 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole, and Chapter 5: Off-World Colony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connell states that as a parent, he feels "a moral duty to be deluded about" (4) what?
(a) The battle between good and evil.
(b) Financial solvency.
(c) World peace.
(d) The future.

2. 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) Esoteric.
(b) Erroneous.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Ecstatic.

3. Around the time depicted in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, the United States and which country were at odds around nuclear weapons?
(a) Iran.
(b) North Korea.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Russia.

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

5. People from what area of the world appear to be buying up large swaths of land in New Zealand?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Silicon Valley.
(c) The Midwestern United States.
(d) The Bermuda Triangle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?

2. During O'Connell's study of the doomsday prepping movement, he came to see the movement as "a hysterical symptom of" what "itself" (20)?

3. O'Connell discusses a piece of what type of media that went viral around the time he went to visit an apocalyptic compound?

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

5. What is the last name of the man named James Wesley who founded a movement called American Redoubt?

(see the answer key)

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