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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1: Tribulations and Chapter 2: Preparations.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What adjective does O'Connell use to describe the effect of the online discourse on reality?
(a) Burrowing.
(b) Streamlining.
(c) Burning.
(d) Flattening.

3. What does the letter R stand for in the acronym WROL?
(a) Rule.
(b) Regression.
(c) Ratio.
(d) Radius.

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

5. How old was O'Connell's son at the time of the events described in Chapter 1: Tribulations?
(a) 6.
(b) 11.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the book How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It, Rawles predicts the collapse of all but which of the following entities?

4. When Chapter 1: Tribulations opens, O'Connell describes watching what type of television show with his son?

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)?

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