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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 a red tag given by the Green Star Relief Station give a person the right to do?
(a) die at a "mercy camp"
(b) go back into the closed off areas of Texarkana
(c) get medical aid from the abbey
(d) have shelter at the relief station

2. What does Cors do when he breaks his promise to the abbot?
(a) keeps it a secret
(b) tries to trick the abbot into believing someone else did it
(c) confesses and promises not to lapse again
(d) confesses and offers to leave

3. What does Taddeo want Kornhoer to do?
(a) come to the collegium to do research
(b) give Taddeo his invention
(c) not tell anyone about the invention yet
(d) explain how the invention works

4. Why does Taddeo prefer the fragile original documents to the copies?
(a) The copies have faded worse over time than the originals.
(b) Though the originals are fraile, the copies are even more delicate.
(c) The copyists were not always accurate.
(d) The original documents can be carbon dated.

5. What does Paulo do to make the Poet shut up?
(a) takes his artificial eye
(b) steps on his foot
(c) puts a hand oveer the Poet's mouth
(d) kicks him out of the abbey

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Grales?

2. What does the Old Jew, Benjamin, do when Paulo comes to return his goat?

3. What might prevent Joshua and the monks from taking off in their spaceship?

4. How does Taddeo react to the stories of monks who have died or gone blind preserving the Memorabilia?

5. How many monks does it take to run the invention?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the legend of Leibowitz's death.

2. What shocks the abbot most about Kornhoer's invention?

3. Why does Taddeo think Kornhoer would be valuable to him?

4. What is the literary style of the story of the Flame Deluge read to Taddeo at the beginning of Chapter 18?

5. Why is the APLAC a necessary device?

6. How does Mad Bear view Taddeo's party?

7. What makes Paulo lose hope that Taddeo might be able to intervene to prevent the upcoming war?

8. What is the likely reason Taddeo does not arrive on time at the monastery?

9. What is the purpose of Quo peregrinaqtur grex?

10. Why do the Poet's jokes cause so much upset at the dinner?

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