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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of emaciated animal was featured in the video O'Connell describes?
(a) A polar bear.
(b) An ostrich.
(c) A penguin.
(d) An elephant.

2. O'Connell wonders how humans are supposed to take what action when we know that we are likely doomed?
(a) To live.
(b) To laugh.
(c) To smile.
(d) To breathe easily.

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

4. In what branch of the military did the founder of the American Redoubt movement serve?
(a) Army.
(b) Coast Guard.
(c) Air Force.
(d) Navy.

5. 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) Paranoia.
(b) America.
(c) Despair.
(d) Boredom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Participants in the Ghost Dance are said to have believed that their dancing would hasten which event?

3. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?

4. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mount Eden?

2. What does the video of the emaciated polar bear symbolize according to O'Connell?

3. In what way does the theme of delusion arise within Chapter 1: Tribulations?

4. With what culture is the Ghost Dance associated?

5. To what location did O'Connell travel around the time when nuclear tensions were rising between the United States and North Korea?

6. What does the acronym WROL stand for within the prepping movement?

7. What sight does O'Connell describe seeing in Glendale and what significance does he find in the sight?

8. How does O'Connell use specific word choice to mirror the themes of the text?

9. For what reason does O'Connell allude to a television show called Mars in Chapter 5: Off-World Colony?

10. What element of life does O'Connell call "the last remaining truth" (4) and why?

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