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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of the theater where B gives the lecture, "The Great Forgetting"?
(a) Der Bau.
(b) Piccolo Teatro.
(c) Dramaten.
(d) Odéon.

3. Who does B say won a Nobel Prize for his work with DDT?
(a) Max Born.
(b) Gustav Hertz.
(c) Paul Muller.
(d) Walther Bothe.

4. Where does Jared spend hours looking for ways to spell Michael's name?
(a) A university.
(b) A bookstore.
(c) A government building.
(d) The library.

5. What day of the week is June 8?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Monday.

Short Answer Questions

1. B says the human population doubled how many times in the 190,000 years before the Agricultural Revolution?

2. What does B say is the first global salvationist religion?

3. What is the date on Jared's first entry from Part Three of the book?

4. When does B say crime emerged as a problem?

5. Where does B give the lecture, "Population: A Systems Approach"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jared flee the Company Farm?

2. In B's metaphor about boiling a frog, when does he say the water begins to boil for Man?

3. Why does Jared rush to put B's teachings in his diary?

4. What happens when Jared smashes his ammonite fossil?

5. Why does B say an increase in food production will not help the millions that are starving in the world?

6. How does B draw a comparison between a frog and Man?

7. What is The Great Forgetting?

8. How does Albrecht react when Jared says war is an accomplishment of the modern culture?

9. How does Jared lose the tapes he had recorded of B's lectures?

10. Why, according to the lecture, The Great Forgetting, can one can offer to show someone how to be saved and be understood anywhere in the world?

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