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

2. What primary emotion did O'Connell feel when he watched the video of the emaciated animal?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Regret.
(c) Trepidation.
(d) Disgust.

3. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?
(a) Help.
(b) Climate change.
(c) Meme.
(d) Looming crisis.

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

5. 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) Stop.
(c) Collapse.
(d) Finite.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In what year did Doomsday Preppers emerge onto the cultural scene?

4. What is the last name of the man named James Wesley who founded a movement called American Redoubt?

5. In what branch of the military did the founder of the American Redoubt movement serve?

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