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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Shirin relate to a flowing river?
(a) Love.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Vision.

2. Who calls Jared on the phone on the morning of May 21?
(a) Bonnie.
(b) Michael.
(c) Shirin.
(d) Charles.

3. What color are the cushions of the chair Jared sits in at the greenroom at the Schauspiel Wahnfried theater?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Gray.

4. What is the first lecture Jared faxes to Lulfre?
(a) The Great Recollection.
(b) The Great Forgetting.
(c) The Great Thinking.
(d) The Great Remembering.

5. What is the name of the theater where Jared first sees Charles speak?
(a) El Edificio.
(b) Adeiladu.
(c) Le Batiment.
(d) Der Bau.

6. Jared receives an anonymous phone call telling him that he might find Charles in what city?
(a) Bangkok.
(b) Lima.
(c) St. Paul.
(d) Radenau.

7. What is the crowd of picketers calling Charles at the second lecture Jared attends?
(a) Blasphemer.
(b) Whore monger.
(c) Liar.
(d) Thief.

8. Jared says there are how many degrees of losing faith?
(a) 30.
(b) 12.
(c) 5.
(d) 50.

9. What color is the bergere where Charles sits in at the greenroom at the Schauspiel Wahnfried theater?
(a) Periwinkle.
(b) Ebony.
(c) Mauve.
(d) Rust.

10. What decade does Jared say he is living in a time capsule in?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1930s.

11. Where does Charles die?
(a) At a theater.
(b) In the streets.
(c) At a university.
(d) On a train.

12. Charles says a maieutic teacher acts as what for his pupils?
(a) Brother.
(b) Friend.
(c) Pastor.
(d) Midwife.

13. What new item does Jared say he has obtained at the beginning of his May 20 diary entry?
(a) A toaster oven.
(b) A violin.
(c) A tape recorder.
(d) A watch.

14. Who tells Charles that Jared is not an assassin?
(a) Shirin.
(b) Michael.
(c) Monika.
(d) Bonnie.

15. What is the occupation of the man named Nixt in one of Charles's stories?
(a) Fisher.
(b) Tailor.
(c) Weaver.
(d) Butcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day does Jared begin writing his diary?

2. Shirin says the urge to know the future also came to Man through what?

3. What kind of shoes does Shirin always wear?

4. In Shirin's bricolage, what does the pen represent?

5. Jared says there are how many degrees of having faith?

(see the answer keys)

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