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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. B says from 1200 to 1700, man was faced with what kind of hordes?
2. What is the date on Jared's first entry from Part Three of the book?
3. When does B say the age of war began?
4. Jared says he is B because he is what?
5. What is the date on the Epilogue?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does B say caused the advent of Judaism, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Shintoism, and Buddhism?
2. What is The Great Forgetting?
3. In B's metaphor about boiling a frog, when does he say the water begins to boil for Man?
4. Why does Jared flee the Company Farm?
5. How does Jared reply when Albrecht sneeringly asks if he is now B when they think Shirin is dead?
6. What happens when Jared smashes his ammonite fossil?
7. How does B draw a comparison between a frog and Man?
8. In B's metaphor about boiling a frog, when does he say the water first begins to heat up for Man?
9. Why does B argue with what people in the 1950s said about Man and his place in the scheme of things?
10. Why does Jared speak directly to his reader in the epilogue?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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 the effectiveness of the story's ending. How does the plot end? How does the actual text end? Why do you think the author chooses to end his narrative without resolving what happens with Jared and Shirin? What purpose might this sense of unknowing serve for the reader?
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