Take this quiz and find out!

1. Where do you plan to be on New Year's Eve, 1999?

a. In an airplane
b. In an elevator
c. Waiting in line at an ATM machine
d. In my well-stocked pantry, quivering in happy anticipation
e. In bed, worrying

2. If you go to the ATM on 1 January 2000 and it doesn't work, what will you do?

a. Try again the next day
b. Turn on CNN and find out if it's a "trend," an actual "crisis," or a declared "disaster"
c. Pull out a wad of cash from beneath my mattress
d. Panic and start rioting and fucking shit up

3. When someone tells you about a huge party that they're inviting you to next New Year's Eve, how does it make you feel?

a. Excited since I haven't solidified my plans yet and it's nearly 11 months away already!
b. Slightly afraid: What if people start rioting and looting as the clock strikes 12?
c. Slightly afraid for reasons too unfocused and irrational to voice
d. Fake since I'll pretend to be enthused but there's no way in hell I'll be at some stinking party instead of at my wood stove-heated cabin in the woods

4. How are you preparing for the year 2000 problem?

a. I'm taking all the minimum precautions: food, water, flares, purification tablets, guns, ammo, gas masks - the basics.
b. I'm gonna run Norton Utilities on my computer. It'll tell me if there's a problem.
c. I'm worrying a lot and planning to worry even more as the year progresses.
d. I'm reading everything I can find on the subject so when the end of the year rolls around, I'll be even more worried about my lack of preparedness than most people.
e. What year 2000 problem? That's all just a myth, isn't it?

5. How much of an effect has this very important cartoon and quiz had on your awareness of the Y2K problem?

a. About as much effect as most very important awareness-raising messages have on my awareness, which is to say, none at all
b. About as much effect as "a very important Moesha"
c. I'm hungrier for Chef Boyardee Mini Raviolis than I was before.
d. I hate cute abbreviations for potential worldwide disasters more than I did before.
e. I'm more certain than I was before that your mama grows milkweed.

Answer Key

1. e
2. d
3. c
4. b
5. e