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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. Who does Jared entrust with a tape recording of a conversation with Lulfre?

2. Is his June 8 entry, what time does Jared say he became homeless?

3. When does B say Salvationist religions came about?

4. On what date does B give his lecture, "The Collapse of Values"?

5. Jared rushes to write his Epilogue because Michael is taking him to what city?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does Albrecht react when Jared says war is an accomplishment of the modern culture?

3. Even though B says cultural collapse is occurring, what does he say the good news is?

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

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

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

7. How does B draw a parallel between Eastern and Western cultures?

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

9. In what manner does B teach about population?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore the significance of Jared's confrontation with Lulfre after leaving the Company Farm. How does their confrontation unfold? What is his reasoning for confronting him? What does the confrontation say about Jared at this point in the novel? What it say about the character of Lulfre?

Essay Topic 2

Explore Shirin's views on the concept of nature. Where does Shirin believe the concept of nature came from? How does the concept of nature forming relate to the Agricultural Revolution? What does Shirin believe about humans and nature?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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