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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lia feel about the Plan?
(a) She is as whole-heartedly interested as Casaubon is.
(b) She thinks it is absurd, and tries to get Casaubon to drop it.
(c) She begins to become interested in it, despite her initial aversion.
(d) She refuses to discuss it with Casaubon.

2. The land the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers was built on was originally used for what?
(a) A priory.
(b) A cathedral.
(c) Growing secret herbs.
(d) A training ground for knights.

3. Where is Casaubon's group at the beginning of Chapter 63?
(a) Piedmont.
(b) Rome.
(c) Turin.
(d) Milan.

4. Which man-made object is NOT one of the structures that Casaubon, Belbo and Diotallevi think was constructed to collect and transmit telluric energy?
(a) The Eiffel Tower.
(b) Stonehenge.
(c) The Statue of Liberty.
(d) The Pyramids.

5. Why does Casaubon choose to add to the list he presents to Aglie?
(a) To convince Aglie that he's not studying what Aglie thinks he is.
(b) To try and fool Aglie into confessing something.
(c) To get more information about that society.
(d) To test Aglie's knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Casaubon realizes that the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers was built on whose property?

2. What is the Greek word for knowledge that Casaubon mentions?

3. Who was John Dee?

4. What do the cloaked individuals want from Belbo?

5. Who does Aglie bring to the ceremony at the Conservatoire, sedated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lia try to explain to Casaubon, in Chapter 63?

2. What is set up by the cloaked individuals in the Conservatoire?

3. What happens in the story Belbo creates from Abulafia's printouts?

4. What do Casaubon and Lia talk about while on their family vacation?

5. What does Aglie tell Casaubon's group about the Freemasons?

6. What are Casaubon's speculations about Mr. Postel, in Chapter 88?

7. What does Casaubon do after the night at the Conservatoire?

8. Which cloaked individuals does Casaubon recognize?

9. What happens to Diotallevi in Chapter 101?

10. What happens to Belbo, at the end of the novel?

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