View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The founder of the American Redoubt movement wrote what kind of publication?
(a) A bill.
(b) A manifesto.
(c) A pamphlet.
(d) A book.

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

3. O'Connell states that when he thought about his son and his future, he felt a deep sense of what emotion?
(a) Despair.
(b) Bewilderment.
(c) Melancholy.
(d) Confusion.

4. The founder of the American Redoubt movement estimated that the average family in the United States had enough food to last for how long?
(a) 3 days.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 1 month.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. O'Connell claims that doomsday preppers and their actions are completely devoid of which human element?

3. O'Connell concludes in Chapter 2: Preparations that rather than preparing for their fears, doomsday preppers are preparing for their what?

4. O'Connell wonders how humans are supposed to take what action when we know that we are likely doomed?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 229 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample