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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. In what year did Doomsday Preppers exit the cultural scene?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2019.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2003.

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

3. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2011.

4. O'Connell discusses a piece of what type of media that went viral around the time he went to visit an apocalyptic compound?
(a) A journal entry.
(b) A cassette tape.
(c) A painting.
(d) A photograph.

5. Chapter 3: Luxury Survival describes O'Connell's trip to which state?
(a) Utah.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) South Dakota.
(d) Ohio.

Short Answer Questions

1. Around the time depicted in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, the United States and which country were at odds around nuclear weapons?

2. O'Connell claims that doomsday preppers and their actions are completely devoid of which human element?

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

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

5. What is the first name of Vicino, the man O'Connell calls a real estate magnate for the end of days?

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