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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. For what length of time did O'Connell immerse himself in the online world of doomsday prepping?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 3 months.

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) Time.
(d) Money.

3. During O'Connell's study of the doomsday prepping movement, he came to see the movement as "a hysterical symptom of" what "itself" (20)?
(a) America.
(b) Despair.
(c) Paranoia.
(d) Boredom.

4. O'Connell discovered that the Mars Society believed that humankind was taking what action in relation to the end of the world?
(a) Warping it.
(b) Minimizing it.
(c) Ignoring it.
(d) Hastening it.

5. When Chapter 1: Tribulations opens, O'Connell describes watching what type of television show with his son?
(a) Telenovellas.
(b) News.
(c) Cartoons.
(d) Mysteries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word or phrase has continued to be googled more and more often over time, according to O'Connell?

2. In Chapter 1: Tribulations, O'Connell asserts that his carbon footprint is as deep and wide as his what?

3. Caroline lives on a house boat along which river, according to O'Connell?

4. O'Connell states at the end of Chapter 5: "Off-World Colony" that "from the Native point of view," what "was in any case a matter of historical record" (131)?

5. In Chapter 6: "Under the Hide," O'Connell discusses at length a character called the Lorax, who states that he "speak[s] for the" (132) what?

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