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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 Chapter 1, what is Brother Francis Gerard of Utah doing in the desert?

2. Cheroki's reaction to Francis' confession is ____________.

3. What does the abbot do when he finds out that Francis is planning a complex, illustrated project glorifying Leibowitz's blueprint?

4. To what does Cheroki compare Francis' desire to have a vocation?

5. What does Francis confess to eating?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Francis want to join the Pope's crusade?

2. Why do the monks wear burlap habits?

3. Compare the robber's view of the illuminated blueprint and the original relic to Francis's.

4. What is Taddeo's attitude toward the clergy and the Church?

5. Describe Abbot Paulo's health problem.

6. What was Isaac Edward Leibowitz's profession before the Flame Deluge?

7. What does Cheroki's disbelief in Francis's find tell the reader about the rarity of the fallout shelter and relics?

8. How does Taddeo view the modern-day common man?

9. What physical characteristics to Minnesotans have, and what is the likely cause of them?

10. What is the implication of the wry smile on Fingo's statue of Leibowitz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel presents dreams, impressions, and myths of the characters, such as the abbot's dream about Rachel, Joshua's impression of the possible snake in the garden, Zerchi's hallucinations as he is dying, and myths about the Great Deluge and Leibowitz. How can the reader and the characters tell the truth from human perception or myth? In what way, or ways, are these perceptions and myths real? In what way or ways are they false?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the relationship between Dr. Cors and Zerchi to the relationship between Taddeo and Paulo. Each abbot meets a man of science who has a very different perspective than his own. Describe the conflicts arising between the abbots and the scientists, and discuss each abbot's perspective on the scientist.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the mutations in the novel.

Part 1) How do the mutated humans in the novel stretch the definition of what it means to be human? How do they create quandaries for the Church, in defining humanity?

Part 2) How do the normal humans in the novel treat the mutants, and what does this say about humanity?

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