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

2. In what year did Doomsday Preppers emerge onto the cultural scene?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2006.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2012.

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

4. What is the last name of the man named James Wesley who founded a movement called American Redoubt?
(a) Dawes.
(b) Rawles.
(c) Miller.
(d) Jones.

5. 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?
(a) The family.
(b) Civilization itself.
(c) The nation-state.
(d) The economy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which family member told O'Connell all about the nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States?

2. How many practical guidebooks about preparing for the end of the world did O'Connell read during his long period of study?

3. What kind of emaciated animal was featured in the video O'Connell describes?

4. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?

5. O'Connell recalls looking at what type of object over his son's head while also watching television with him?

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