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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 does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?
(a) Regression.
(b) Rule.
(c) Radius.
(d) Ratio.

2. What does the Spanish word vivos mean in English?
(a) Living.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Breath.
(d) Freedom.

3. O'Connell declares in Chapter 1: Tribulations that "the last remaining truth is the supreme fiction of" (4) what?
(a) Time.
(b) Money.
(c) Individual identity.
(d) Country.

4. When Chapter 1: Tribulations opens, O'Connell describes watching what type of television show with his son?
(a) Mysteries.
(b) Cartoons.
(c) Telenovellas.
(d) News.

5. What is NOT a quality O'Connell attributes to the old man he saw dancing while stopped at a red light in Glendale?
(a) Long hair.
(b) An earring.
(c) A pair of headphones.
(d) A beard.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The Ghost Dance described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" was intended to consume which group of people?

4. O'Connell discusses a piece of media called Doomsday Preppers. What was it?

5. At what location did Elon Musk speak alongside his son on a television show seen by O'Connell?

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