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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 B gives the lecture, "The Great Forgetting"?
2. Where does Jared spend hours looking for ways to spell Michael's name?
3. In what city does B give his lecture, "The Collapse of Values"?
4. When does B say the age of war began?
5. The recovery center where Jared goes after he leaves the hospital is in what country?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does B believe the Agricultural Revolution caused problems for mankind?
2. Why does Jared flee the Company Farm?
3. What is The Great Forgetting?
4. How does B draw a comparison between a frog and Man?
5. Why does B argue with what people in the 1950s said about Man and his place in the scheme of things?
6. In B's metaphor about boiling a frog, when does he say the water first begins to heat up for Man?
7. In what manner does B teach about population?
8. In his May 31 entry, why does Jared say he cannot call Germany and make sure Shirin and Michael are all right?
9. What happens when Jared visits Lulfre after fleeing the Company Farm?
10. How does Jared reply when Albrecht sneeringly asks if he is now B when they think Shirin is dead?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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