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Quarterly Preparedness Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

Fellow Patriots, It is time for the quarterly Preparedness quiz for those wanting to have some fun and test your knowledge. I will email the answers to you within 24 hours. Good luck and have some fun.


1. If you lose your Bug Out Bag and could only save one item, what would you keep?


a. A single bullet?

b. A life straw for drinking clean water?

c. One meal?

d. A signaling mirror to use in signaling for help?


2. When bugging out and leaving your home and possessions behind, one of the hardest choices you may have to make is?


a. Leaving a loved one behind because they will slow your escape?

b. Leaving your personal property and numerous preparedness resources?

c. Knowing when to pull the plug and flee your home and valuables?

d. All the above?


3. The best place to have your family emergency plan is?


a. Documented and practiced often?

b. Memorized so no strangers can know it?

c. On the family Kindle?

d. Locked in a safe at a neutral location where burglars cannot find it?


4. When putting together your family emergency plan, one of the first steps you should complete is?


a. Determine if your family will listen to you when you bring it up?

b. Conduct a risk analysis for your area and determine the top five to ten threats you could face? c. Wake your family up at 3 AM by yelling "fire, fire, fire" and time them evacuating from your home?

d. Getting permission from your spouse?


5. When going through your Preparedness steps (daily, weekly, monthly, annually, or never) one very important question you should ask yourself?


a. Why you are preparing?

b. Are you getting the best buy on the preparedness items you purchase?

c. Do you trust your food reserve provider?

d. All the above?


6. When discussing preparedness with others and a voice says "avoid the fear porn" the person is suggesting?


a. Being able to discern reality from fantasy?

b. Having hopeful thinking vs critical thinking?

c. Having wise counsel vs foolish counsel?

d. All the above?


7. When talking about the human factor in preparedness, two of the most important tools one should have is?


a. Food and Water

b. Attitude and honesty

c. A HAM radio and family communication plan

d. Fire starter and life straw


8. When discussing the fundamentals of emergency planning, which are fundamentals you should include?


a. Attitude, Critical Thinking and Discernment, Overcoming Normalcy Bias, Scenarios, Knowledge and Skills

b. Preparation and Action, Supplies, Considering Others, Communication

c. None of the above?

d. All the above


9. When conducting your personal risk assessment, you should consider hazards in what order?


a. Federal, State, County, and Home

b. State, County, Home and Work

c. Home, County, State, and Federal

d. Home, Work, County and State


10. One of the most important goals in preparedness planning is:


a. Becoming self-reliant.

b. Ensuring all water purification systems are in place and family members understand how to use them.

c. All family members obtain their Ham radio license.

d. A single member of the family/team knows who is responsible to do the final store run when they engage their family emergency plan.


11. When discussing the "unprepared" the number one danger to you and your family is?


a. Climate change?

b. An unpracticed family emergency plan?

c. Not bugging out at the right time?

d. You?


12. When establishing a security plan for your home, neighborhood or bug out location, one of the most important things to establish is a?


a. Accountability system for your resources?

b. A determination on how you will process visitors to your area?

c. A rear area extraction point?

d. Where to establish your Listening Post/Observation Post (LP/OP)?


13. You are enjoying a community event with your loved ones and gunfire erupts in the crowd. You hear frantic screams and people running in many directions. Your first instinct is to duck along with your family in order to get your direction on where the sound is traveling from to prevent running towards the threat. You are trying to locate an area to protect your family from gun fire. This is called?