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

2. On what date is B's "The Great Forgetting" lecture presented?
(a) May 16.
(b) May 21.
(c) May 2.
(d) May 28.

3. What is the name of the drug in the book B reads about population?
(a) Purity.
(b) Soma.
(c) Blessing.
(d) Grace.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Jared address directly in his Epilogue?

4. Albrecht tells Jared he needs to remove the obscuring lenses of what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jared rush to put B's teachings in his diary?

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

3. In B's metaphor about boiling a frog, when does he say the water begins to boil for Man?

4. How does Albrecht react when Jared says war is an accomplishment of the modern culture?

5. Why does B believe the Agricultural Revolution caused problems for mankind?

6. How does B draw a comparison between a frog and Man?

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

8. Why does Jared believe the tribal lifestyle worked?

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

10. In what manner does B teach about population?

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