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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What university does Jared attend before he is loaned out?

2. Charles tells Jared a story in which the master has how many sets of teachings?

3. What is Frau's last name?

4. What does Bonnie's father do for a living?

5. Shirin draws a shape around her bricolage to represent what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charles tell Jared about the master's two sets of teaching?

2. What happens when B and Jared visit "Meyer-Uberbleibselen" together?

3. Why is Jared sent to Germany?

4. How does Jared feel after he hears Charles give a lecture for the first time?

5. What does B say to Jared about the lunacy within individual cultures?

6. What is the tale of the weavers that B tells?

7. What point is Charles trying to make by mentioning the novel "Monkey"?

8. What does B tell Jared about the Tak?

9. In what way do Takers see the world, according to B?

10. In the May 20 entry, how does B explain the way he will teach Jared?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of the fossil Charles buys for Jared. Why does he give Jared the fossil? What does it represent? How does Jared feel about the fossil? What do his feelings say about the way he feels about Charles?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of the Great Forgetting and the Great Remembering. What are these instances? What does B believe needs to happen regarding these concepts? How do these concepts relate to B's desire to save the world? What is he trying to undo?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jared's transformation into B. How does it take place? What reaction does he receive from others who can sense he will soon become B? Why do you think the author chooses to make Jared become B?

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