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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Brother Francis at first believe is in the hole?
(a) a scroll
(b) an animal
(c) treasure
(d) the remains of Blessed Leibowitz

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Francis' pet project as a copyist?

2. What does Francis picture the fallout shelter becoming?

3. What does Francis believe is the most significant event that happened to him in the desert?

4. What does Francis confess to eating?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cheroki's disbelief in Francis's find tell the reader about the rarity of the fallout shelter and relics?

2. Describe the Poet's living conditions.

3. Describe Taddeo's ideas about history.

4. What is Brother Francis seeking in the desert?

5. What does Francis realize about the Pope and the Vatican, on examining the Pope's cassock and the surroundings closely?

6. How does Taddeo view the modern-day common man?

7. What physical characteristics to Minnesotans have, and what is the likely cause of them?

8. How does Francis interpret the inscription "Transistorized Control System for Unit six-B"?

9. Describe Abbot Paulo's health problem.

10. Describe the pilgrim.

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