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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. B says for over 10,000 years, a chorus of what was assembling?

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

3. Jared says the tape recording he made of a conversation with Lulfre is gone because he is too what?

4. Who do doctors tell Jared is the only person who has called him while he has been in the hospital?

5. What is the date on the Epilogue?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jared believe the tribal lifestyle worked?

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

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

4. How does B say Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" caused a change in the world?

5. 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?

6. Why does B say it is not necessary to change mankind to survive?

7. What happens when Jared visits Lulfre after fleeing the Company Farm?

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

9. Why does B argue with what people in the 1950s said about Man and his place in the scheme of things?

10. Why does Jared flee the Company Farm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the concept of the Great Forgetting and the Great Remembering. What are these instances? What does B believe needs to happen regarding these concepts? How do these concepts relate to B's desire to save the world? What is he trying to undo?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Explore Shirin's role as B. How does she become B? Why do you think she takes over? How does her version of B differ from Charles's? How does it stay the same? What seems to be her function in the narrative?

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