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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Francis admit about the strange pilgrim?
(a) His words seemed drowned out, perhaps by a heavenly choir.
(b) His head glowed as if he might have a halo.
(c) He wrote two unintelligible marks on a rock.
(d) After he left, Francis did discover some rose petals in the dirt.

2. Why doesn't Francis open the racing form?
(a) The old paper is too fragile.
(b) Francis considers the racing form holy and doesn't want to touch it.
(c) The racing form is stuck together with some kind of glue.
(d) The monks believe that gambling is a sin.

3. What does Apollo agree to do?
(a) go to New Rome to ask permission for Taddeo to see the documents
(b) ask the abbot, Dom Paulo, to lend the documents to Taddeo
(c) go to the abbey to get the documents for Taddeo
(d) go to the abbey bring back proof of auhentication of the documents

4. What does Francis say about the rumors surrounding his meeting of the pilgrim?
(a) About have the rumors are true.
(b) Most of the rumors are completely true.
(c) The rumors are true, but with some exaggeration.
(d) Most of the rumors are completely false.

5. Venerable Boedullus created a lake by _____________________________.
(a) praying for the lake to appear
(b) accidentally setting off a weapon
(c) rerouting a river
(d) digging for 50 years

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Abbot want Francis to deny?

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

3. Why does the Pope say Francis' time creating the illustrated blueprint was not wasted?

4. What is Francis' pet project as a copyist?

5. Which of the following does Flaught NOT use as an argument against Francis' testimony?

(see the answer key)

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