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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 101-110.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to the political radicals in Milan, while Casaubon was away?
(a) Most of them were arrested, and the rest formed an underground society.
(b) They migrated away from politics, and toward psychology and transcendental meditation.
(c) They rioted and were driven out of the city, and now communicate via encoded messages.
(d) They staged a coup, and overthrew the city's government.

2. Why is Casaubon looking for a hiding spot, in Chapter 1?
(a) He is being pursued by someone.
(b) He is running from the police.
(c) The museum he is in is about to close.
(d) He is homeless and has nowhere to go.

3. Who is Ingolf?
(a) One of Casaubon's professors, and a revolutionary.
(b) A well-read man, who found a mysterious parchment in a tunnel.
(c) A rich Parisian who collected a wealth of information about the Templars.
(d) A "lunatic" who submitted his manuscript, about the Templars, to Belbo's company.

4. In Belbo's account, John Dee is overtaken by whom?
(a) King Phillip.
(b) Francis Bacon.
(c) Jacques de Molay.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

5. What does Casaubon think John Dee's motivations were?
(a) To take control of the Templars' secrets.
(b) To create a new organization, with himself as leader.
(c) To infiltrate the Templars and spy on them for the Queen.
(d) To fragment and destroy the Templars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Hebrew name of God?

2. The Knights Templar fought to protect the Holy Land from what?

3. What did Loyola do to expose and confuse the Templars?

4. Who is the narrator of the novel?

5. Which of the following were women whom the Knights Templar were NOT allowed to kiss or make eye contact with?

(see the answer key)

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