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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Abbot do when Francis won't categorically deny any mystical significance to the stranger?
(a) blackmails Francis into lying about his experience
(b) refuses to allow Francis to take his vows
(c) beats Francis each day for 10 days
(d) throws Francis out of the abbey

2. 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

3. How does Francis respond to being hit by the Abbot?
(a) He begs the Abbot to stop.
(b) He remains silent and submits to his punishment.
(c) He groans and asks for forgiveness.
(d) He says, "Deo gratias!"

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

5. What reason does the Abbot give for disbelieving the story of the pilgrim?
(a) No pilgrim stopped at the abbey.
(b) Another novice walking along the road saw no one.
(c) He gives no reason.
(d) The road is blocked, so no one could have come through.

6. What does Brother Francis believe Fallout is?
(a) a monster
(b) radiation
(c) a saint
(d) a weather system

7. What does Francis see when he awakes?
(a) a wolf
(b) a vision of Leibowitz
(c) a buzzard
(d) a vision of New Rome

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

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

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

11. Which of the following does Flaught NOT use as an argument against Francis' testimony?
(a) Francis might be suffering from mental illness.
(b) Francis might have misread the word Leibowitz on the blueprint.
(c) Francis might be mistaken that the "Em" referrs to Emily Leibowitz.
(d) Francis' finds might be forged.

12. Is Leibowitz a saint at the beginning of the novel?
(a) No, he is not yet canonized.
(b) Yes, he was canonized long ago.
(c) No, and the monks have given up on having him canonized.
(d) Yes, he was recently canonized.

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

14. To what does Brother Francis attribute his finding of the fallout shelter?
(a) a sign from God of his vocation as a monk of Leibowitz
(b) a purposeful design by the strange pilgrim
(c) an inevitable, predestined fate
(d) a lucky accident

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Cheroki finally absolve Francis?

3. What is Brother Fingo's original trade?

4. How does Francis try to get the illumination back?

5. Why does Taddeo want to look at the documents the Albertine Order of Leibowitz has?

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