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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does B say civil revolt, slavery, and inflation began?
(a) 100 B.C.E. to 1000 C.E.
(b) 100 A.D. to 2000 C.E.
(c) 500 to 0 B.C.E.
(d) 1400 to 0 B.C.E.

2. What is the date on the Epilogue?
(a) Undated.
(b) June 30.
(c) June 22.
(d) July 1.

3. Where does B give the lecture, "Population: A Systems Approach"?
(a) Lollar.
(b) Boppard.
(c) Stuttgart.
(d) Aach.

4. What does Jared say is his favorite time for calling the receptionist at the recovery center.
(a) Midnight.
(b) 3 a.m.
(c) 2 a.m.
(d) 1 a.m.

5. What medical condition does Jared have at the beginning of Part Three?
(a) Concussion.
(b) A broken back.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) The flu.

6. In what time period does B say the frog in his boiling-frog metaphor for society has boiled?
(a) 1850 to 1950.
(b) 1960 to 1996.
(c) 1900 to 1920.
(d) 1929 to 1970.

7. What happens to the tape recording Jared made of a conversation with Lulfre?
(a) It gets stolen.
(b) It gets thrown out of a window.
(c) It gets stepped on.
(d) It falls in the toilet.

8. Who does Jared entrust with a tape recording of a conversation with Lulfre?
(a) His mother.
(b) A friend.
(c) His cousin.
(d) A police officer.

9. B says the good news is that culture is not what?
(a) The world.
(b) Important.
(c) Humanity.
(d) The future.

10. Who says, "Anyone can be hunted."
(a) Michael.
(b) Albrecht.
(c) Lulfre.
(d) Bonnie.

11. Jared rushes to write his Epilogue because Michael is taking him to what city?
(a) Florence.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Hamburg.
(d) New York City.

12. Jared says the tape recording he made of a conversation with Lulfre is gone because he is too what?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Confused.
(c) Naive.
(d) Trusting.

13. B believes cultures should be what?
(a) Diverse.
(b) Uniform.
(c) Overpopulated.
(d) Nonexistent.

14. Who does Jared visit on June 8, looking for clues about Michael and Shirin, before going to find new spellings for Michael's name?
(a) Frau.
(b) Monika.
(c) Bonnie.
(d) Gustl.

15. When does B say Salvationist religions came about?
(a) 500 to 1400 C.E.
(b) 0 to 500 C.E.
(c) 0 to 1200 C.E.
(d) 1400 to 1900 C.E.

Short Answer Questions

1. B says Homo sapiens were first seen on the planet how long ago?

2. In the book B reads about population, there is drug that cures what?

3. According to B's lecture, "The Great Forgetting," who is the author of "Principia"?

4. In what city does B give the lecture, "The Boiling Frog"?

5. In what city does B give his lecture, "The Collapse of Values"?

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