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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Shirin's bricolage, what does the pen represent?
(a) The Law of Light.
(b) The Law of Life.
(c) The Law of Loss.
(d) The Law of Love.

2. Shirin says the concept of Nature sprang from where?
(a) The Great Forgetting.
(b) The Great Remembering.
(c) The Great Dream.
(d) The Great Revolution.

3. Who owns the shop where Charles buys Jared a fossil?
(a) Mounir Gerth.
(b) Gustl Meyer.
(c) Eric Rossman.
(d) Michael Miller.

4. Shirin always wears what color jeans?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Tan.
(d) Blue.

5. What is Charles's last name?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Letchas.
(c) Oakes.
(d) Atterley.

6. Who does Charles say discovered that yellow fever is carried by mosquitoes?
(a) Robert Cess.
(b) Jule Charney.
(c) Walter Reed.
(d) Marie Curie.

7. After Charles's second lecture, Jared follows him to a building marked what?
(a) Little Mexico.
(b) Little China.
(c) Little India.
(d) Little Bohemia.

8. Shirin always wears what kind of shirt?
(a) Oxford.
(b) Polo.
(c) Lace.
(d) Silk.

9. Shirin uses an insect to tell Jared that every track begins and ends in the hand of who?
(a) God.
(b) Man.
(c) Jesus.
(d) B.

10. What is Lulfre's first name?
(a) Charles.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Jack.
(d) Hugo.

11. Shirin marks the tracks of what insect to when teaching Jared?
(a) Ladybug.
(b) Roach.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Beetle.

12. Who is the first person in the book to go by B?
(a) Shirin.
(b) Charles.
(c) Lulfre.
(d) Jared.

13. Where does Shirin take Jared to put together her bricolage?
(a) The theater.
(b) His hotel room.
(c) The park.
(d) A church.

14. What new item does Jared say he has obtained at the beginning of his May 20 diary entry?
(a) A tape recorder.
(b) A violin.
(c) A watch.
(d) A toaster oven.

15. The story Charles tells Jared the first time they meet originates in what country?
(a) Greece.
(b) China.
(c) England.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Charles die?

2. Who does Jared fax every day?

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

4. What is the occupation of the man named Nixt in one of Charles's stories?

5. Who does Jared meet that is compulsively searching for Charles?

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