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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. Is his June 8 entry, what time does Jared say he became homeless?
(a) Noon.
(b) 3 p.m.
(c) 11 a.m.
(d) 4 p.m.

2. How many Homo sapiens does B predict first emerged on earth?
(a) 100.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 100,000.

3. What does B say is the origin of the world's population explosion?
(a) The Industrial Revolution.
(b) The Great War.
(c) The Great Depression.
(d) The Agricultural Revolution.

4. What is the name of the doctor in the book B reads about population?
(a) Dr. Spry.
(b) Dr. Quick.
(c) Dr. Ready.
(d) Dr. Fast.

5. Jared and Shirin want to protect who from Lulfre?
(a) Albrecht.
(b) Bonnie.
(c) Michael.
(d) Monika.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date on the Epilogue?

2. What is Michael's last name?

3. At what theater does B give his lecture, "The Collapse of Values"?

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

5. The recovery center where Jared goes after he leaves the hospital is in what country?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jared flee the Company Farm?

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 first begins to heat up for Man?

4. What is The Great Forgetting?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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