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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How long is the journey from the abbey to New Rome?
(a) three months
(b) three days
(c) three years
(d) three weeks
2. What does Apollo agree to do?
(a) ask the abbot, Dom Paulo, to lend the documents to Taddeo
(b) go to the abbey to get the documents for Taddeo
(c) go to the abbey bring back proof of auhentication of the documents
(d) go to New Rome to ask permission for Taddeo to see the documents
3. What does Abbot Arkos dislike about Fingo's figure of Leibowitz?
(a) its overlarge belly
(b) its overlarge ears
(c) its wry smile
(d) its laughing eyes
4. Is Leibowitz a saint at the beginning of the novel?
(a) No, and the monks have given up on having him canonized.
(b) No, he is not yet canonized.
(c) Yes, he was canonized long ago.
(d) Yes, he was recently canonized.
5. 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) 15 skeletons
(d) blueprint making materials
6. Why are the monks unwelcoming toward Monsignor Flaught?
(a) Flaught is a disbeliever who tries to force his atheism on the monks.
(b) Flaught has an eerie aura of the devil about him.
(c) Flaught is an unpreposessing person whom the monks dislike on sight.
(d) Flaught's job is to argue against the canonization of Leibowitz.
7. Why does Arkos let Francis take his vows in the Albertine Order of Leibowitz?
(a) Francis' relics apear to be genunie.
(b) Francis threatens to go over Arkos's head to New Rome.
(c) Francis has finally changed his story.
(d) Francis has shown true humility.
8. Why does Cheroki find standing and kneeling uncomfortable?
(a) He was mutated by radiation.
(b) His legs are wounded.
(c) He has arthritis.
(d) He is used to sitting in a chair.
9. Why doesn't Francis open the racing form?
(a) The monks believe that gambling is a sin.
(b) The old paper is too fragile.
(c) The racing form is stuck together with some kind of glue.
(d) Francis considers the racing form holy and doesn't want to touch it.
10. In addition to being diplomatic to Taddeo, why does Apollo meet with him?
(a) He hopes to persuade Taddeo to ask for the documents to be sent to him.
(b) He hopes to ask a favor.
(c) He hopes to find out what Taddeo knows about Leibowitz.
(d) He hopes to get political information.
11. What does Francis see when he awakes?
(a) a vision of Leibowitz
(b) a wolf
(c) a buzzard
(d) a vision of New Rome
12. What does Francis believe is the most significant event that happened to him in the desert?
(a) finding the fallout shelter
(b) finding the relics of Leibowitz
(c) building a shelter for himself
(d) meeting the old man
13. With what does the Abbot hit Francis?
(a) his open hand
(b) a hickory ruler
(c) a long staff
(d) an ancient tome
14. What is the result of Kornhoer's test of his invention?
(a) The invention quietly fails.
(b) The invention works.
(c) The invention works for a while and then quits without explanation.
(d) The invention explodes.
15. What would we term Taddeo's field of study today?
(a) chemistry
(b) physics
(c) anthropology
(d) biology
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Francis picture the fallout shelter becoming?
2. To what does Brother Francis attribute his finding of the fallout shelter?
3. Does Francis believe the strange pilgrim was supernatural?
4. When did the Age of Enlightenment end?
5. What does Brother Francis find that has the name Leibowitz, I.E. on it?
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