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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. Why does the Abbot withhold some information in ‘First Day’?
(a) He has forgotten the information.
(b) It was told to him in confession.
(c) He is uncertain of the information.
(d) He doesn't know the information.

2. Where is Adso from originally?
(a) Germany.
(b) Italy.
(c) England.
(d) France.

3. At that time this book was written, who was the Emperor?
(a) Charles.
(b) Bernard.
(c) John.
(d) Louis.

4. How does Salvatore speak?
(a) In Italian.
(b) In a mixture of different languages.
(c) He is mute.
(d) In Latin.

5. What will the monks debate in the discussions to take place?
(a) Which sects to exterminate.
(b) Who should be the main power.
(c) The role of poverty in the church.
(d) Where the Pope should live.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berengar think he saw in ‘Second Day’?

2. Why does Adso hallucinate in the library?

3. In ‘Second Day,’ where does William tell the abbot they were?

4. What does Benno imply about Berengar?

5. Whom did Adso accompany on his travels?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the narrator find confirmation of the book’s veracity?

2. What is William fascinated by?

3. Who does William already know at the abbey in ‘First Day’?

4. How does Adso feel about ‘modern’ life?

5. How does it look like Venantius died?

6. What do the monks debate at the first dinner?

7. What does Benno reveal about Adelmo?

8. How did Venantius die?

9. What does Berengar think he saw in ‘Second Day’?

10. How did the narrator originally lose his copy of the book?

(see the answer keys)

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