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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. Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole describes O'Connell's arrival in what location?
(a) Perth.
(b) Boston.
(c) Auckland.
(d) New York City.

2. To what location did Mark O'Connell travel when he visited a famous set of hills, as described in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival?
(a) The Black Hills.
(b) The Bermuda Triangle.
(c) The Mojave Desert.
(d) Niagara Falls.

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

4. During O'Connell's study of the doomsday prepping movement, he came to see the movement as "a hysterical symptom of" what "itself" (20)?
(a) America.
(b) Despair.
(c) Paranoia.
(d) Boredom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Which annual gathering of the Mars Society did O'Connell attend in Los Angeles?

3. Upon seeing an old man dancing in Glendale, O'Connell thinks about a boy he had seen dancing by the river in which state?

4. For what purpose is a particular group of people buying land in New Zealand?

5. When Chapter 5: Off-World Colony begins, O'Connell discusses an episode of which television show?

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