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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Francis' pet project as a copyist?
(a) creating illustrated panels of Leibowitz's name
(b) restoring lost words from damaged documents
(c) making an illuminated version of Leibowitz's blueprint
(d) decoding Leibowitz's memo book

2. What term for the unlearned do the people of the Simplification embrace as a complimentary term?
(a) dunce
(b) simpleton
(c) bonehead
(d) ignoramous

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

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

5. What is Brother Fingo's original trade?
(a) horse trainer
(b) jeweler
(c) map maker
(d) woodcarver

6. Why does Francis fail to complete his shelter?
(a) He cannot find the right shape rock for the last piece.
(b) He spends too much time exploring the fallout shelter and runs out of light.
(c) He cannot find enough rocks to complete the shelter.
(d) He realizes that while he's been in the fallout shelter, wolves have surrounded his shelter.

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

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

9. What does Francis picture the fallout shelter becoming?
(a) a new capital for the country
(b) a new capital for the Church
(c) a library
(d) a basilica

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

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

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

13. How does Francis try to get the illumination back?
(a) by wrestling the robber
(b) by stabbing the robber
(c) by threatening the robber with lightning from God
(d) by threatening the robber with reprisals from New Rome

14. When does Brother Francis believe the Fallout was born?
(a) in the Great Fire
(b) at the end of time
(c) in the Flame Deluge
(d) in the Firey Exculpation

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the pilgrim have to eat?

2. What decree does the Pope give Francis?

3. What does Brother Francis at first believe is in the hole?

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

5. What is Brother Francis building?

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