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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 says, "Anyone can be hunted."
(a) Michael.
(b) Bonnie.
(c) Albrecht.
(d) Lulfre.

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

3. Who does Jared entrust with a tape recording of a conversation with Lulfre?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A friend.
(c) His mother.
(d) His cousin.

4. How long has Jared been in the hospital at the start of Part Three?
(a) 1 day.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 3 days.

5. B says a Swiss scientist won a Nobel Prize for his work with DDT in what year?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1948.

Short Answer Questions

1. B believes cultures should be what?

2. B says Man has forgotten a time before what era?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does B say an increase in food production will not help the millions that are starving in the world?

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

4. In what manner does B teach about population?

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

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

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

8. What happens when Jared smashes his ammonite fossil?

9. Why does Jared believe the tribal lifestyle worked?

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

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