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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. What group of people uses the term "bug-out bag" (19)?
(a) Artists.
(b) Vegans.
(c) Preppers.
(d) Entymologists.

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

3. What role did Elon Musk play in the emergence of the company called SpaceX?
(a) Founder.
(b) Director.
(c) Investor.
(d) CEO.

4. 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) Ecstatic.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Erroneous.

5. The Ghost Dance described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" was intended to consume which group of people?
(a) Colonizers.
(b) Puritans.
(c) Magistrates.
(d) Policemen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Doomsday Preppers exit the cultural scene?

2. What is the last name of O'Connell's friend Anthony?

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

4. O'Connell declares in Chapter 1: Tribulations that "the last remaining truth is the supreme fiction of" (4) what?

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

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