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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Francis go to bed without food?
(a) Brother Francis is allowed no food at all on his fast.
(b) It is too dangerous to collect cactus fruit in the dark.
(c) Brother Francis decides to eat nothing to cleanse himself.
(d) There is no food left for Brother Francis to eat.

2. When did the Age of Enlightenment end?
(a) the 1980s
(b) the 1970s
(c) the 1960s
(d) the 1990s

3. How much weight has Francis lost during his vigil?
(a) 40 pounds
(b) 30 pounds
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 10 pounds

4. Why does Brother Francis only hope to find paper artifacts in the fallout shelter?
(a) Paper artifacts are most valuable because most paper has decayed.
(b) Excavating for anything but paper documents has been ruled too dangerous.
(c) Brother Francis confuses all paper for the paper money used before the catastrophe.
(d) Brother Francis believes he can use carbon dating on paper artifacts to date the site.

5. What is Francis' pet project as a copyist?
(a) making an illuminated version of Leibowitz's blueprint
(b) creating illustrated panels of Leibowitz's name
(c) restoring lost words from damaged documents
(d) decoding Leibowitz's memo book

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Francis picture the fallout shelter becoming?

3. What does Francis say about the rumors surrounding his meeting of the pilgrim?

4. With what does the Abbot hit Francis?

5. Who insists that Francis must complete his illuminated blueprint?

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