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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Charles that Jared is not an assassin?
(a) Monika.
(b) Bonnie.
(c) Michael.
(d) Shirin.

2. To what continent does Lulfre send Jared?
(a) Europe.
(b) South America.
(c) North America.
(d) Asia.

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

4. What does Shirin tell Jared to do with his fossil when he asks her?
(a) To smash it.
(b) To keep it safe no matter what.
(c) To use it for art.
(d) To give it away.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Frau's last name?

2. What is the name for people who see the gods as the strange force that animates a place?

3. What is the name of the story Shirin tells Jared on the train to Stuttgart?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jared sent to Germany?

2. What is the point of the story of the Imperial Chill, as Jared understands it from B's lecture?

3. What does B tell Jared about the Tak?

4. What is the tale of the weavers that B tells?

5. Why does Shirin want to teach Jared in a different way than Charles did?

6. In what way do Takers see the world, according to B?

7. What point is Charles trying to make by mentioning the novel "Monkey"?

8. What happens when Shirin asks Jared what Lulfre will do if he decides B is the Antichrist?

9. What does B say happened when mankind became hunters?

10. What does B say to Jared about the lunacy within individual cultures?

(see the answer keys)

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