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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Taddeo want to look at the documents the Albertine Order of Leibowitz has?
(a) for their linguistic value
(b) for their mystical value
(c) for their scientific value
(d) for their relgious value

2. What offer does the robber finally make Francis?
(a) The robber will let Francis away with his life if Francis promises not to persue him.
(b) The robber will return the illumination for a chance to meet the Pope.
(c) The robber will return the illumination for two heklos of gold.
(d) The robber will destroy the illumination if anyone comes after him.

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

4. How old does the Old Jew claim to be?
(a) 329
(b) 2,309
(c) 3,209
(d) 1,219

5. What is Thon Taddeo Pfardentrott interested in?
(a) studying the Leibowitzian documents of the monks
(b) avoiding the coming war
(c) making sure his half-sister marries well
(d) taking over power from Hannegan

6. What does Brother Francis find in the hole?
(a) a coffin
(b) a staircase
(c) a book
(d) a box

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

8. What does the pilgrim find for Brother Francis?
(a) a stick
(b) some fruit
(c) a bird
(d) a stone

9. Where does the unwelcome guest claim to have gotten the Old Jew's goat?
(a) in a game of mumbly-peg
(b) wandering aimlessly on the moor
(c) in a game of poker
(d) from the slaughterhouse

10. Where does the Abbot send Francis?
(a) back to his vigil in a new location
(b) to his room to meditate on his sins
(c) back to the ruins
(d) to the infirmary

11. What does Francis speculate that the stain on the blueprint might be?
(a) Leibowitz's tears
(b) Emily's blood
(c) Leibowitz's sweat
(d) Leibowitz's blood

12. What does Paulo have in his office?
(a) five pages of indecipherable text
(b) the original Leibowitz blueprint relic
(c) Fingo's carving of St. Leibowitz
(d) Francis's illuminated blueprint

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

14. Why are the monks unwelcoming toward Monsignor Flaught?
(a) Flaught is an unpreposessing person whom the monks dislike on sight.
(b) Flaught is a disbeliever who tries to force his atheism on the monks.
(c) Flaught has an eerie aura of the devil about him.
(d) Flaught's job is to argue against the canonization of Leibowitz.

15. How does the Pope enter the chamber for the canonization?
(a) He appears from behind curtains.
(b) He is carried in on a chair.
(c) He parades in, leading a contingent of guards.
(d) He is lowered down from the ceiling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pilgrim have to eat?

2. What decree does the Pope give Francis?

3. What do the Dominicans find in the sealed inner chamber of the Fallout Shelter?

4. What does Francis admit about the strange pilgrim?

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

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