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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. B says Homo sapiens were first seen on the planet how long ago?
(a) 500,000 years.
(b) 9,000 years.
(c) 200,000 years.
(d) 1,000,000 years.

2. In what city does B give his lecture, "The Collapse of Values"?
(a) Strasbourg.
(b) Radenau.
(c) Athens.
(d) Nottingham.

3. B says Man has forgotten a time before what era?
(a) The Agricultural Revolution.
(b) The Industrial Revolution.
(c) The Renaissance.
(d) The Middle Ages.

4. Jared says the tape recording he made of a conversation with Lulfre is gone because he is too what?
(a) Stupid.
(b) Trusting.
(c) Naive.
(d) Confused.

5. B says from 1200 to 1700, man was faced with what plague?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Bubonic.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Typhus.

6. In what year does the book "Silent Spring" come out?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1954.

7. Jared rushes to write his Epilogue because Michael is taking him where?
(a) To the theater.
(b) To the hospital.
(c) To the church.
(d) To the airport.

8. Who asks Jared if he is B now?
(a) Michael.
(b) Albrecht.
(c) Shirin.
(d) Bonnie.

9. At what theater does B give his lecture, "The Collapse of Values"?
(a) Suomen Kansallisteatteri.
(b) Stary Teatr.
(c) Yugoslav Drama Theatre.
(d) Schauspielhaus Wahnfried.

10. What does Albrecht say he will do to Jared if he starts to call himself B?
(a) Kill him.
(b) Worship him.
(c) Banish him.
(d) Embarrass him.

11. Who does B say won a Nobel Prize for his work with DDT?
(a) Walther Bothe.
(b) Gustav Hertz.
(c) Max Born.
(d) Paul Muller.

12. What kind of books does B say will be read a dozen dozen times?
(a) Fictional.
(b) Historical.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Holy.

13. 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) On the Origin of Species.
(c) The Interpretation of Dreams.
(d) The Double Helix.

14. What does B say is the first global salvationist religion?
(a) Mormonism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Christianity.

15. With what sentence does Jared end his Epilogue?
(a) We are B.
(b) You are B.
(c) I am B.
(d) No one is B.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does B give his lecture, "The Collapse of Values"?

2. In the book B reads about population, there is drug that cures what?

3. In what time period does B say the frog in his boiling-frog metaphor for society has boiled?

4. Is his June 8 entry, what time does Jared say he became homeless?

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

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