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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 is the name of the theater where Jared first sees Charles speak?

2. Who does Jared meet that is compulsively searching for Charles?

3. Who is the first person in the book to go by B?

4. Who says, "When Jesus departed, he left no one behind who was the message."

5. To what Roman Catholic order does Jared belong?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does B tell Jared about the Tak?

2. Describe the anonymous phone call Jared receives at his hotel room after he hears Charles give a lecture for the first time.

3. Why does Shirin say she is B at the end of the May 23 entry?

4. Why is Jared sent to Germany?

5. How does Jared answer when Shirin asks him why he has come to see B and his lectures?

6. What does B mean when he says he wants to save the world?

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

8. What does Jared find a crowd doing the second time he goes to hear Charles speak?

9. What does B say happened when mankind became hunters?

10. What do the pieces in Shirin's bricolage represent?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is the significance of Charles's murder? How does it move the plot along? What does it reveal about the other characters? Why do you think Quinn chose to kill of Charles?

Essay Topic 3

Explore Jared's wavering sense of faith in his religion throughout the novel. When does he begin to doubt his faith? When does he finally admit that he has lost it? What is the significance of Jared, a priest, losing his faith after hearing B speak? What point do you think he might be trying to make?

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