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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Paulo refuse to do?
(a) greet Taddeo on his arrival
(b) allow Taddeo in the abbey
(c) see a doctor
(d) allow Kornhoer's invention to remain assembled

3. What is the result of Kornhoer's test of his invention?
(a) The invention works for a while and then quits without explanation.
(b) The invention quietly fails.
(c) The invention explodes.
(d) The invention works.

4. What does Francis believe is the most significant event that happened to him in the desert?
(a) building a shelter for himself
(b) finding the relics of Leibowitz
(c) meeting the old man
(d) finding the fallout shelter

5. What does Brother Francis find that has the name Leibowitz, I.E. on it?
(a) dogtags
(b) a blueprint
(c) a poster
(d) a diary

6. Who does Paulo kick out of the guesthouse?
(a) the Bard
(b) the Pauper
(c) the Poet
(d) the Preacher

7. Who does the Pope ask to come to New Rome?
(a) Jeris
(b) Arkos
(c) Flaught
(d) Francis

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

9. What is Brother Fingo's current job?
(a) gardener
(b) cook's helper
(c) bartender
(d) janitor

10. How long is the journey from the abbey to New Rome?
(a) three months
(b) three years
(c) three weeks
(d) three days

11. What are Bookleggers?
(a) monks who hide books on their person, usually in their pants
(b) monks who hide books in kegs
(c) criminals to use books to make alcohol
(d) monks who memorize books word for word

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

13. Why does the robber take the illumination instead of the original?
(a) The robber is afraid of excommunication from New Rome if he steals the relic.
(b) The robber is religious and wants the true relic to go to Rome.
(c) The gold-embellished illumination appears more valuable.
(d) The robber is afraid the Church will kill him if he steals the relic.

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

15. Why does Taddeo want the documents to be brought to him instead of going to the abbey?
(a) He thinks that if he finds out the documents are forged, the monks might try to harm him.
(b) He believes scholars will think conclusions he comes to at the abbey are biased.
(c) He thinks that the monks at the abbey will try to force him to stay.
(d) He is too ill to travel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who insists that Francis must complete his illuminated blueprint?

2. Why are the monks unwelcoming toward Monsignor Flaught?

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

4. To what does Brother Francis attribute his finding of the fallout shelter?

5. What does Brother Francis find that lets him know the fallout shelter hasn't been plundered?

(see the answer keys)

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