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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. In what city does B give the lecture, "The Great Forgetting"?

2. What is the name of Jared's doctor at the recovery center?

3. B says the human population doubled how many times in the 190,000 years before the Agricultural Revolution?

4. Jared says the tape recording he made of a conversation with Lulfre is gone because he is too what?

5. How long has Jared been in the hospital at the start of Part Three?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does B argue with what people in the 1950s said about Man and his place in the scheme of things?

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

4. What happens when Jared visits Lulfre after fleeing the Company Farm?

5. Why does B say it is not necessary to change mankind to survive?

6. How does B say Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" caused a change in the world?

7. How does Jared reply when Albrecht sneeringly asks if he is now B when they think Shirin is dead?

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

9. What happens when Jared smashes his ammonite fossil?

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

Throughout the book Shirin and Charles tell Jared stories and present him with analogies. List two of these instances and explain their significance to the book and to B's message. What do these stories represent? Why do Shirin and Charles teach this way?

Essay Topic 2

Explore Jared's initial reaction when he hears Charles's lecture. What does he think of the message? Why does the lecture upset him? What does he seem to think of Charles?

Essay Topic 3

Explore the significance of the bricolage Shirin uses to teach Jared. What is the basic concept of Shirin's bricolage? Why does she construct it? How does she plan to use it to teach Jared? Discuss the role of each part of the bricolage.

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