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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. In what time does period does B say the first madhouse was created?
(a) 1700 to 1900.
(b) 500 to 1000.
(c) 1200 to 1700.
(d) 1000 to 1200.

2. B says what word is understood anywhere in the world?
(a) Blasphemy.
(b) God.
(c) Saved.
(d) Love.

3. Jared says he has written his diary with the possibility of what?
(a) It being published.
(b) Someone reading it.
(c) It being heralded as a work of genius.
(d) Someone destroying it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the receptionist at the recovery center where Jared goes after he leaves the hospital?

2. Who does B say won a Nobel Prize for his work with DDT?

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

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

5. What system of living does B believe is very successful?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does B say about individual cultures and their place in the scheme of things?

2. In what manner does B teach about population?

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

4. Why is the date for the first entry in section three unknown?

5. What is The Great Forgetting?

6. What happens when Jared smashes his ammonite fossil?

7. How does B draw a parallel between Eastern and Western cultures?

8. Why does Jared speak directly to his reader in the epilogue?

9. Why does Jared believe the tribal lifestyle worked?

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

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