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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Francis open the racing form?
(a) The old paper is too fragile.
(b) The racing form is stuck together with some kind of glue.
(c) The monks believe that gambling is a sin.
(d) Francis considers the racing form holy and doesn't want to touch it.

2. Where did Kornhoer get the information to help him create his invention?
(a) from a vision he had in his sleep
(b) from Brother Armbruster
(c) from one hidden book he deciphered
(d) from fragments of documents in the abbey

3. In addition to being diplomatic to Taddeo, why does Apollo meet with him?
(a) He hopes to find out what Taddeo knows about Leibowitz.
(b) He hopes to ask a favor.
(c) He hopes to persuade Taddeo to ask for the documents to be sent to him.
(d) He hopes to get political information.

4. What is the result of Kornhoer's test of his invention?
(a) The invention works for a while and then quits without explanation.
(b) The invention quietly fails.
(c) The invention works.
(d) The invention explodes.

5. What is Thon Taddeo Pfardentrott interested in?
(a) studying the Leibowitzian documents of the monks
(b) making sure his half-sister marries well
(c) avoiding the coming war
(d) taking over power from Hannegan

6. Does Francis believe the strange pilgrim was supernatural?
(a) Yes, he is completely convinced the stranger was actually St. Leibowitz.
(b) No, he believes the pilgrim was an ordinary man but doesn't know what happened to him.
(c) No, he realizes the stranger was an ordinary man who tricked him and planned an escape through the mountains.
(d) Yes, but he admits the stranger may have been an ordinary man.

7. What does Francis believe is the most significant event that happened to him in the desert?
(a) finding the relics of Leibowitz
(b) meeting the old man
(c) building a shelter for himself
(d) finding the fallout shelter

8. What does the Pope decide, based on the evidence?
(a) to hold a second investigation
(b) to disband the Albertine Order of Leibowitz
(c) to remove Leibowitz's name from the rolls of possible cannonization
(d) to canonize Leibowitz

9. What does the Abbot do with the fallout shelter?
(a) He sends to Rome for instructions, meanwhile marking it off limits.
(b) He closes is awaiting the arrival of trained archaeologists.
(c) He sends three monks to inventoy it and then closes it.
(d) He closes it without investigating the find.

10. What does the pilgrim have to eat?
(a) a biscuit and cheese
(b) milk and bread
(c) meat and cheese
(d) a dry crust

11. What does Francis see when he awakes?
(a) a buzzard
(b) a wolf
(c) a vision of New Rome
(d) a vision of Leibowitz

12. What decree does the Pope give Francis?
(a) a decree of excommunication against anyone who attacks Francis
(b) a decree of honor awarding Francis a high place in his order
(c) a decree of service rewarding Francis for everything he's done in honor of St. Leibowitz
(d) a decree of canonization officializing the canoniation of St. Leibowitz

13. How does Francis try to get the illumination back?
(a) by stabbing the robber
(b) by wrestling the robber
(c) by threatening the robber with lightning from God
(d) by threatening the robber with reprisals from New Rome

14. In Chapter 1, what is Brother Francis Gerard of Utah doing in the desert?
(a) looking for pilgrims
(b) running away
(c) fasting
(d) searching for relics

15. What does the sign Brother Francis finds beneath the rocks in Chapter 1 say?
(a) Fallout Shelter Closed by Order of the Fire Marshall
(b) Do Not Enter / Danger: High Voltage
(c) Caution: Wet Floor
(d) Fallout Survival Shelter / Maximum Occupancy: 15

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Taddeo want to look at the documents the Albertine Order of Leibowitz has?

2. Venerable Boedullus created a lake by _____________________________.

3. Who was Taddeo's mother?

4. What reason does the Abbot give for disbelieving the story of the pilgrim?

5. What does Paulo have in his office?

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