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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. In which century did St. Augustine write that the earliest followers of Jesus believed that the end of the world was near?
(a) The 3rd.
(b) The 13th.
(c) The 9th.
(d) The 5th.

2. What is the title of the "movement of artists and writers and activists united by the conviction that climate catastrophe was not just real and imminent but also in fact inevitable" (141)?
(a) The Dark Mountain Project.
(b) The Dark River Project.
(c) The Dark Forest Project.
(d) The Dark Bay Project.

3. O'Connell concludes in Chapter 2: Preparations that rather than preparing for their fears, doomsday preppers are preparing for their what?
(a) Survival.
(b) Tribulations.
(c) Fantasies.
(d) Futures.

4. Chapter 4: Bolt-Hole describes O'Connell's arrival in what location?
(a) New York City.
(b) Boston.
(c) Perth.
(d) Auckland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connell links the boy and the old man described in Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" and imagines that there is "some vast collective of lone" what kind of "dancers" (131)?

2. Toward the end of the retreat described in Chapter 6: "Under the Hide" each participant spends how many consecutive hours alone in the forest?

3. What kind of artist was the man who served as O'Connell's son's first example of an auteur?

4. When Chapter 5: Off-World Colony begins, O'Connell discusses an episode of which television show?

5. Around the time depicted in Chapter 3: Luxury Survival, the United States and which country were at odds around nuclear weapons?

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