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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. Where is the book when William and Adso go back in ‘Fifth Day’?
(a) On the bookshelf.
(b) On Severinus’s body.
(c) It has disappeared.
(d) In William's habit.

2. What does Adso do in reaction to his love being lost?
(a) He laments all night.
(b) Makes a plea for her.
(c) Follows her.
(d) He renounces all women.

3. What is Adso’s love accused of?
(a) Theft.
(b) Breaking and entering.
(c) Prostitution.
(d) Being a witch.

4. Who will take over the duties of the Cellarer?
(a) Nicholas.
(b) Malichi.
(c) Benno.
(d) Salvatore.

5. What does the abbot witness Adso looking at in ‘Sxith Day’?
(a) His ring.
(b) His sandals.
(c) His habit.
(d) His hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. In ‘Fifth Day,’ who does Bernardo think is guilty and investigate?

2. Why will the abbot not intervene for the condemned?

3. What makes the book being looked for strange?

4. What does William see as the inspiration for what happens to Adso during the choir’s chanting in ‘Sixth Day’?

5. What languages does the confessor in ‘Third Day’ use?

Short Essay Questions

1. What additional clothing is Severnius’s corpse wearing?

2. What are Salvatore and the Cellarer hiding in ‘Fourth Day’?

3. In ‘Fifth Day,’ who has taken the book?

4. Where were William’s eyeglasses in ‘Fourth Day’?

5. What might be ‘dangerous’ about the book’s contents?

6. In ‘Fourth Day,’ how many ‘eyes’ does William now have, according to Adso?

7. What does Salvatore expect his story to inspire in Adso?

8. What makes the Cellarer ‘confess’?

9. Who does Bernard Gui (Bernardo Guido) accuse of the murders in ‘Fourth Day’?

10. What is Benno mostly ignorant of?

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