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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Under the Hide.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does O'Connell name as the one that launched him "on a course of alternate hopefulness and despair" (167)?
(a) Finishing his degree.
(b) Fostering a child.
(c) Buying a home.
(d) Having a child.

2. Caroline described a wooden box in which she kept how many seeds from a particular tree?
(a) 10.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 50.

3. From what type of tree were the seeds discussed by Caroline in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide"?
(a) Maple.
(b) Birch.
(c) Aspen.
(d) Yew.

4. How does O'Connell describe Caroline's position?
(a) Artist.
(b) Singer.
(c) Academic.
(d) Professor.

5. What type of sunglasses does O'Connell associate with the doomsday prepping community?
(a) Wraparound.
(b) Mirrored.
(c) Aviator.
(d) Polarized.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connell discusses going to what type of location called Alladale?

2. 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?

3. O'Connell spent a week at Alladale in the spring of which year?

4. Caroline told O'Connell that in the end, the element that allows survival "is and always will be" (159) what?

5. The founder of the American Redoubt movement estimated that the average family in the United States had enough food to last for how long?

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