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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does B say is the origin of the world's population explosion?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) The Great War.
(c) The Industrial Revolution.
(d) The Agricultural Revolution.

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

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

4. Where does Jared spend hours looking for ways to spell Michael's name?
(a) A bookstore.
(b) A government building.
(c) The library.
(d) A university.

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

6. B says what word is understood anywhere in the world?
(a) Love.
(b) Blasphemy.
(c) God.
(d) Saved.

7. Who does Jared entrust with a tape recording of a conversation with Lulfre?
(a) A police officer.
(b) His cousin.
(c) His mother.
(d) A friend.

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

9. What does Jared say is his favorite time for calling the receptionist at the recovery center.
(a) 2 a.m.
(b) 1 a.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 3 a.m.

10. When does B say civil revolt, slavery, and inflation began?
(a) 100 B.C.E. to 1000 C.E.
(b) 100 A.D. to 2000 C.E.
(c) 1400 to 0 B.C.E.
(d) 500 to 0 B.C.E.

11. What is the name of the doctor in the book B reads about population?
(a) Dr. Fast.
(b) Dr. Ready.
(c) Dr. Spry.
(d) Dr. Quick.

12. In his "The Great Forgetting" lecture, B says what group of people follow the law, leaving the rule of the world in the hands of the gods?
(a) Leavers.
(b) Adventists.
(c) Rulers.
(d) Followers.

13. What is Michael's last name?
(a) Goldberg.
(b) Dershinsky.
(c) Dusseldorf.
(d) Neumann.

14. What is the date on Jared's first entry from Part Three of the book?
(a) June1.
(b) Unknown.
(c) May 31.
(d) June 2.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. B says the good news is that culture is not what?

2. Jared says he has written his diary with the possibility of what?

3. On what day does Jared conclude that a disaster happened at the theater?

4. Who does Jared address directly in his Epilogue?

5. B believes cultures should be what?

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