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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. Why are the monks unwelcoming toward Monsignor Flaught?
(a) Flaught is a disbeliever who tries to force his atheism on the monks.
(b) Flaught's job is to argue against the canonization of Leibowitz.
(c) Flaught has an eerie aura of the devil about him.
(d) Flaught is an unpreposessing person whom the monks dislike on sight.

2. What does the Pope decide, based on the evidence?
(a) to disband the Albertine Order of Leibowitz
(b) to remove Leibowitz's name from the rolls of possible cannonization
(c) to hold a second investigation
(d) to canonize Leibowitz

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

4. What does the abbot do when he finds out that Francis is planning a complex, illustrated project glorifying Leibowitz's blueprint?
(a) shrugs and walk away
(b) revokes Francis's vocation
(c) sends Francis back to work in the kitchen
(d) orders Francis to stop work on the project immediately

5. What is Thon Taddeo Pfardentrott interested in?
(a) making sure his half-sister marries well
(b) avoiding the coming war
(c) studying the Leibowitzian documents of the monks
(d) taking over power from Hannegan

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sign Brother Francis finds beneath the rocks in Chapter 1 say?

2. What reason does the Abbot give for disbelieving the story of the pilgrim?

3. What does Brother Francis find that has the name Leibowitz, I.E. on it?

4. What does Paulo refuse to do?

5. What does the Abbot do when Francis won't categorically deny any mystical significance to the stranger?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Poet's living conditions.

2. How does the Pope treat the clan chief?

3. What does Brother Francis need to protect himself against in the desert?

4. Why is the find of Emily Leibowitz's skull important to the case for the canonization of Leibowitz?

5. What was Isaac Edward Leibowitz's profession before the Flame Deluge?

6. Why does the Church have a Devil's Advocate?

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

8. What is the implication of the wry smile on Fingo's statue of Leibowitz?

9. In what way is Brother Francis's motivation selfish?

10. Describe Francis's reaction to the news that he's to attend the canonization.

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