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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Dominicans find in the sealed inner chamber of the Fallout Shelter?
(a) a treasure trove of electronic equipment
(b) a miraculously preserved body
(c) blueprint making materials
(d) 15 skeletons

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

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

4. Why does Arkos let Francis take his vows in the Albertine Order of Leibowitz?
(a) Francis has finally changed his story.
(b) Francis threatens to go over Arkos's head to New Rome.
(c) Francis has shown true humility.
(d) Francis' relics apear to be genunie.

5. What does Francis picture the fallout shelter becoming?
(a) a new capital for the Church
(b) a library
(c) a new capital for the country
(d) a basilica

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Brother Francis' first reaction to the stranger?

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

3. What does Francis speculate that the stain on the blueprint might be?

4. What confession prompts Cheroki to withhold absolution from Francis?

5. What does the Abbot want Francis to deny?

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