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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 system of living does B believe is very successful?
(a) Modern.
(b) Tribal.
(c) Industrial.
(d) Technological.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jared says the tape recording he made of a conversation with Lulfre is gone because he is too what?

2. What is the date on Jared's first entry from Part Three of the book?

3. On what date does B give the lecture, "The Boiling Frog"?

4. What medical condition does Jared have at the beginning of Part Three?

5. In B's lecture, "The Great Forgetting," he says he would wager that geneticists do not spend an hour a day reading what book?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does B say Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" caused a change in the world?

3. Why does Jared flee the Company Farm?

4. Why does Jared believe the tribal lifestyle worked?

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 Albrecht react when Jared says war is an accomplishment of the modern culture?

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

8. What does B say caused the advent of Judaism, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Shintoism, and Buddhism?

9. In his May 31 entry, why does Jared say he cannot call Germany and make sure Shirin and Michael are all right?

10. What happens when Jared smashes his ammonite fossil?

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