A Canticle for Leibowitz Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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A Canticle for Leibowitz Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What decree does the Pope give Francis?
(a) a decree of service rewarding Francis for everything he's done in honor of St. Leibowitz
(b) a decree of honor awarding Francis a high place in his order
(c) a decree of excommunication against anyone who attacks Francis
(d) a decree of canonization officializing the canoniation of St. Leibowitz

9. What does Flaught conclude about Francis' blueprint?
(a) It shows his ability as a forger.
(b) It shows his misunderstanding of 20th century blueprint processes.
(c) It is a brilliant work of art.
(d) It is a waste of effort.

10. What does Flaught conclude about Francis' story?
(a) It is important evidence.
(b) It is a true miracle.
(c) It is trivial.
(d) It is a manufactured response, made up by the monks together.

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

12. Cheroki's reaction to Francis' confession is ____________.
(a) anger
(b) encouragement
(c) sarcasm
(d) pity

13. 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) There is no food left for Brother Francis to eat.
(d) Brother Francis decides to eat nothing to cleanse himself.

14. What is Leibowitz's goal in the priesthood?
(a) to preserve human history
(b) to put the world under the control of the church
(c) to build up his own glory for his future sainthood
(d) to rebuild an atom bomb

15. What priesthood does Leibowitz join?
(a) the Knowlenians
(b) the Albertines
(c) the Arthurians
(d) the Cistercians

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pilgrim find for Brother Francis?

2. Does Francis believe the strange pilgrim was supernatural?

3. What does the Pope decide, based on the evidence?

4. What does Kornhoer want to remove from the alcove where Taddeo will work?

5. Who attacks Francis on his way to Rome?

(see the answer keys)

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