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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. What group of people uses the term "bug-out bag" (19)?
(a) Entymologists.
(b) Vegans.
(c) Preppers.
(d) Artists.

2. O'Connell declares in Chapter 1: Tribulations that "the last remaining truth is the supreme fiction of" (4) what?
(a) Individual identity.
(b) Country.
(c) Money.
(d) Time.

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

4. Which family member told O'Connell all about the nuclear conflict between Russia and the United States?
(a) His brother.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His father.
(d) His uncle.

5. O'Connell recalls looking at what type of object over his son's head while also watching television with him?
(a) A laptop.
(b) A tablet.
(c) A phone.
(d) A clock.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what length of time did O'Connell immerse himself in the online world of doomsday prepping?

2. What primary emotion did O'Connell feel when he watched the video of the emaciated animal?

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

4. In what year did Doomsday Preppers exit the cultural scene?

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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