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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole, and Chapter 5: Off-World Colony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was O'Connell when a family member told him about the nuclear conflict between the United States and Russia?
(a) 11 or 12.
(b) 8 or 9.
(c) 5 or 6.
(d) 13 or 14.

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

3. 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) 1 month.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 3 days.

4. 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 economy.
(b) The nation-state.
(c) The family.
(d) Civilization itself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade of life was Anthony at the time he fetched O'Connell from the airport near his home?

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

3. In Chapter 2: Preparations, O'Connell recalls a period of time when he often muttered which word to himself throughout each day?

4. In what year did O'Connell attend a gathering of the Mars Society at the Pasadena Convention Center?

5. O'Connell states that as a parent, he feels "a moral duty to be deluded about" (4) what?

(see the answer key)

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