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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?
(a) 13 or 14.
(b) 11 or 12.
(c) 8 or 9.
(d) 5 or 6.

2. What was the name of the luxury apocalyptic compound O'Connell visited?
(a) QPoint.
(b) LPoint.
(c) XPoint.
(d) MPoint.

3. O'Connell discusses a piece of media called Doomsday Preppers. What was it?
(a) A book.
(b) A television show.
(c) A movie.
(d) A video game.

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

5. 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 cassette tape.
(b) A painting.
(c) A journal entry.
(d) A photograph.

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

7. At the time when the show aired depicting Elon Musk and his son, for how many years had NASA's space shuttle program been defunct?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 9.
(d) 4.

8. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?
(a) Finite.
(b) Stop.
(c) Useless.
(d) Collapse.

9. How many theories does O'Connell have about the correlation between doomsday preppers and their sunglasses?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 0.

10. At what altitude did the compound lie that O'Connell visited during his investigation of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?
(a) 1,600 feet.
(b) 3,800 feet.
(c) 700 feet.
(d) 2,400 feet.

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

12. When Chapter 5: Off-World Colony begins, O'Connell discusses an episode of which television show?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Mars.
(c) Venus.
(d) Pluto.

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

14. O'Connell concludes in Chapter 2: Preparations that rather than preparing for their fears, doomsday preppers are preparing for their what?
(a) Futures.
(b) Fantasies.
(c) Survival.
(d) Tribulations.

15. In Texas alone, there are how many purveyors of luxury apocalyptic dwellings?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what location did Mark O'Connell travel when he visited a famous set of hills, as described in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival?

2. O'Connell wonders how humans are supposed to take what action when we know that we are likely doomed?

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

4. The founder of the American Redoubt movement wrote what kind of publication?

5. How many days in total did O'Connell spend in Auckland, New Zealand?

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