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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What medical condition does Jared have at the beginning of Part Three?
(a) A broken back.
(b) The flu.
(c) Concussion.
(d) Pneumonia.

3. Jared says he has written his diary with the possibility of what?
(a) Someone destroying it.
(b) It being published.
(c) Someone reading it.
(d) It being heralded as a work of genius.

4. What is the name of the recovery center where Jared goes after he leaves the hospital?
(a) The Company House.
(b) The Company Church.
(c) The Company Farm.
(d) The Company Bank.

5. What happens to the tape recording Jared made of a conversation with Lulfre?
(a) It gets thrown out of a window.
(b) It falls in the toilet.
(c) It gets stolen.
(d) It gets stepped on.

6. Why does Jared say he, Shirin, and Charles were targets?
(a) Because they are B.
(b) Because they are misunderstood.
(c) Because no one likes them.
(d) Because they are the Antichrist.

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

8. B believes cultures should be what?
(a) Overpopulated.
(b) Diverse.
(c) Uniform.
(d) Nonexistent.

9. What day of the week is June 8?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Monday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Tuesday.

10. B says a large part of cultural mythology claims a profound gulf between what?
(a) The young and the old.
(b) The past and the present.
(c) Eastern and Western cultures.
(d) Men and women.

11. In the book B reads about population, there is drug that increases what?
(a) Alertness.
(b) Bone density.
(c) Fertility.
(d) Intelligence.

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

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

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

15. B says when population is increased, it is necessary to increase what?
(a) The university system.
(b) Food production.
(c) Land mass.
(d) Medication production.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the book B reads about population?

3. Jared rushes to write his Epilogue because Michael is taking him where?

4. When does B say crime emerged as a problem?

5. Who does B say won a Nobel Prize for his work with DDT?

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