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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Taddeo responded to the Memorabilia?
(a) He says that he will be able to understand it all within 5 years.
(b) He believes that most of the Memorabilia is faked and meaningless.
(c) He is amazed at the amount of lost knowledge, which will take decades to fully understand.
(d) He says too much is lost to make sense of it.

2. What does Benjamin offer Paulo to drink?
(a) juice
(b) milk
(c) water
(d) beer

3. What does the statue at the mercy camp resemble?
(a) the Old Jew
(b) the President
(c) Christ
(d) a weeping mother

4. What happens during Mrs. Grayles' confession?
(a) an earthquake
(b) the arrival of a messenger with news of peace
(c) the arrival of military troops
(d) a missile attack

5. How does Taddeo greet Paulo?
(a) with a present
(b) laconically
(c) effusively
(d) with dozens of questions

6. Why is Zerchi late to give Mrs. Grales confession?
(a) He must make his own confession.
(b) He forgets about the appointment.
(c) He must post bail.
(d) He must calm down the other monks.

7. Wat does Taddeo accuse the monks of doing?
(a) withholding knowledge from mankind
(b) secretly organizing against Hannegan
(c) forgetting their origins
(d) trying to keep him at the abbey

8. About what do Dr. Cors and Zerchi disagree?
(a) abortion
(b) euthanasia
(c) nuclear war
(d) how deadly radiation is

9. What does Paulo say Taddeo's evidence comes from?
(a) a play or fictional dialog
(b) a science fiction novel of the 20th century
(c) a mistranslation
(d) hallucinations

10. What does Joshua's data show?
(a) Nuclear weapons tests were likely failures.
(b) The fluctuations in radiation are meaningless anomalies.
(c) Nuclear weapons are likely being tested.
(d) A new kind of non-nuclear destructive weapon is being developed.

11. What does the Defense Minister say about reports of increased radiation levels and nuclear testing?
(a) He responds that nuclear testing is illegal.
(b) He says that the report of increased radiation is false.
(c) He says the increase is due to natural phenomena.
(d) He says that nucear bomb tests are being conducted but that they are safe.

12. What does the Old Jew, Benjamin, do when Paulo comes to return his goat?
(a) He rewards Paulo for returning the goat.
(b) He refuses to take the goat back.
(c) He takes the goat back without thanks.
(d) He makes a bet with Paulo over the goat.

13. After the war, what does Hannegan do to Apollo?
(a) enslaves him
(b) executes him
(c) exiles him
(d) releases him

14. Why doesn't Mrs. Grayles go to Father Selo for confession?
(a) Father Selo has died.
(b) Mrs. Grayles doesn't like Father Selo.
(c) One of her sins has to do with Father Selo.
(d) Mrs. Grayles is embarrassed to confess to Father Selo.

15. To whom does Paulo compare the smile on the statue of Leibowitz?
(a) Himself
(b) Taddeo
(c) Benjamin
(d) Christ

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Taddeo want Kornhoer to do?

2. How long is the war between Hannegan and Laredo?

3. What does Joshua think he hears in the rose garden?

4. What does the police officer give Zerchi?

5. What does the shaman admire about the monks?

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