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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls Jared on the phone on the morning of May 21?

2. Shirin always wears what kind of shirt?

3. What is the name of the story Charles tells Jared the first time they meet?

4. What color is the bergere where Charles sits in at the greenroom at the Schauspiel Wahnfried theater?

5. Jared receives an anonymous phone call telling him that he might find Charles in what city?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does B say to Jared about the lunacy within individual cultures?

2. Describe the bricolage that Shirin makes for Jared as they walk through the park?

3. What does B say happened when mankind became hunters?

4. What does B tell Jared about St. Paul?

5. How does Jared feel after he hears Charles give a lecture for the first time?

6. Why is Jared sent to Germany?

7. What happens when B and Jared visit "Meyer-Uberbleibselen" together?

8. Why does Jared think he made a mistake after hearing Charles give a lecture for the first time?

9. What happens when Shirin asks Jared what Lulfre will do if he decides B is the Antichrist?

10. Why does Shirin, now B, cry to Jared in the May 24 (2 a.m.) entry?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book Shirin and Charles tell Jared stories and present him with analogies. List two of these instances and explain their significance to the book and to B's message. What do these stories represent? Why do Shirin and Charles teach this way?

Essay Topic 2

Explore Jared's wavering sense of faith in his religion throughout the novel. When does he begin to doubt his faith? When does he finally admit that he has lost it? What is the significance of Jared, a priest, losing his faith after hearing B speak? What point do you think he might be trying to make?

Essay Topic 3

Explore the use of the Antichrist in the novel. What is the Antichrist? What role does the Antichrist play in the novel? What is the significance of this concept? What point do you think the author is trying to make through the presence of the Antichrist in the novel?

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