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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 15: The Great Remembering.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In B's lecture, "The Great Forgetting," he says he would wager that geneticists do not spend an hour a day reading what book?
(a) Cosmos.
(b) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(c) The Double Helix.
(d) On the Origin of Species.

3. B says the existence of a pre-agricultural man became undeniable in what century?
(a) Eighteenth.
(b) Seventeenth.
(c) Sixteenth.
(d) Nineteenth.

4. What does Lulfre send Jared to find?
(a) The Holy Grail.
(b) His long-lost sister.
(c) The Antichrist.
(d) A new apprentice.

5. Why does Jared think Charles is trying to get his attention during the second lecture he attends?
(a) He winks at him.
(b) He makes hand gestures.
(c) He stares at him intensely.
(d) He says his name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What shape does Shirin draw around her bricolage?

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

3. What does Shirin relate to a flowing river?

4. What kind of shoes does Shirin always wear?

5. Who is the first person in the book to go by B?

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