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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the Abbot give for disbelieving the story of the pilgrim?
(a) He gives no reason.
(b) The road is blocked, so no one could have come through.
(c) Another novice walking along the road saw no one.
(d) No pilgrim stopped at the abbey.

2. What does the Abbot do when Francis won't categorically deny any mystical significance to the stranger?
(a) refuses to allow Francis to take his vows
(b) blackmails Francis into lying about his experience
(c) beats Francis each day for 10 days
(d) throws Francis out of the abbey

3. To what does Cheroki compare Francis' desire to have a vocation?
(a) a vulture's attraction to a dead beast
(b) a mouse's desire to run into a hole
(c) a dog's desire for a bone
(d) a cat's desire to study birds

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) Brother Francis believes he can use carbon dating on paper artifacts to date the site.
(c) Excavating for anything but paper documents has been ruled too dangerous.
(d) Brother Francis confuses all paper for the paper money used before the catastrophe.

5. What term for the unlearned do the people of the Simplification embrace as a complimentary term?
(a) bonehead
(b) dunce
(c) ignoramous
(d) simpleton

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Arkos let Francis take his vows in the Albertine Order of Leibowitz?

2. In Chapter 1, what is Brother Francis Gerard of Utah doing in the desert?

3. Is Leibowitz a saint at the beginning of the novel?

4. Why is Brother Francis reluctant to speak to the pilgrim?

5. What does the sign Brother Francis finds beneath the rocks in Chapter 1 say?

(see the answer key)

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