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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. In what theater does B give the lecture, "The Boiling Frog"?
(a) Yugoslav Drama Theatre.
(b) Stary Teatr.
(c) Suomen Kansallisteatteri.
(d) Schauspielhaus Wahnfried.

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

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

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

5. B says for over 10,000 years, a chorus of what was assembling?
(a) Aggravation.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Anger.
(d) Distress.

Short Answer Questions

1. B says Homo sapiens were first seen on the planet how long ago?

2. When does B say civil revolt, slavery, and inflation began?

3. Jared says he is B because he is what?

4. What does B say is the origin of the world's population explosion?

5. B says what word is understood anywhere in the world?

Short Essay Questions

1. In B's metaphor about boiling a frog, when does he say the water first begins to heat up for Man?

2. Why does Jared speak directly to his reader in the epilogue?

3. How does Jared reply when Albrecht sneeringly asks if he is now B when they think Shirin is dead?

4. Why is the date for the first entry in section three unknown?

5. Why, according to the lecture, The Great Forgetting, can one can offer to show someone how to be saved and be understood anywhere in the world?

6. How does Jared lose the tapes he had recorded of B's lectures?

7. What is The Great Forgetting?

8. Why does Jared flee the Company Farm?

9. Why does B argue with what people in the 1950s said about Man and his place in the scheme of things?

10. Even though B says cultural collapse is occurring, what does he say the good news is?

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