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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. On what date does B give the lecture, "Population: A Systems Approach"?

2. What does B say is the first global salvationist religion?

3. What does Jared say is his favorite time for calling the receptionist at the recovery center.

4. On what date is B's "The Great Forgetting" lecture presented?

5. Who does B say won a Nobel Prize for his work with DDT?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is The Great Forgetting?

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

5. In B's metaphor about boiling a frog, when does he say the water first begins to heat up for Man?

6. How are Charles, Shirin, and Jared all B?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore Shirin's role as B. How does she become B? Why do you think she takes over? How does her version of B differ from Charles's? How does it stay the same? What seems to be her function in the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Explore the way B and B's message are received by the public. How does Jared's church view him? How do the crowds view him? What criticisms do people have about B and the message? How does B respond to these criticisms? What is the significance of his response?

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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