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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 new quality does O'Connell ascribe to the modern version of the apocalypse?
(a) Tenuousness.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Rapidity.
(d) Slowness.

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

3. In what month did O'Connell arrive at the airport where his friend Anthony then picked him up?
(a) January.
(b) June.
(c) November.
(d) March.

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

5. 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) 8 or 9.
(c) 11 or 12.
(d) 5 or 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. People from what area of the world appear to be buying up large swaths of land in New Zealand?

2. During O'Connell's study of the doomsday prepping movement, he came to see the movement as "a hysterical symptom of" what "itself" (20)?

3. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?

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

5. The photograph O'Connell discusses in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival depicts what type of sport being played amidst a forest fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss an instance when O'Connell invokes the use of sensory details.

2. Discuss one main theme presented in the epigraph section of Mark O'Connell's book Notes from an Apocalypse.

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

4. What is Mount Eden?

5. With what culture is the Ghost Dance associated?

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

7. What evidence does O'Connell provide for his conclusion that the luxury apocalpyptic compound business is booming?

8. To what location did O'Connell travel one November, as described in Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole?

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

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

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