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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. Who does Zerchi take to town?
(a) a dying girl and her suffering baby
(b) Mrs. Grayles and Rachel
(c) three of his monks
(d) Cors

2. What does Mad Bear rule?
(a) the Mountain clans
(b) the Barbarian clans
(c) the Plateau clans
(d) the Plains clans

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

4. What does Taddeo give Paulo before he leaves?
(a) the officers' sketches of the abbey
(b) a warning about Hannegan
(c) a pouch full of gold
(d) a transistor from before the Great Deluge

5. How many priests does the abbey send on the mission?
(a) 9
(b) 27
(c) 35
(d) 17

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Taddeo suspect surviving mankind might be?

2. How long are the enemy cities bombed in the myth of the Flame Deluge?

3. What does Paulo tell Kornhoer?

4. Whose skull does Zerchi see as he lays dying?

5. Why is Zerchi late to give Mrs. Grales confession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What power does New Rome give Joshua's colony, in the event of the destruction of the Earth?

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

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

4. What angers Paulo about the news of the governments' reactions to the nuclear incident?

5. Describe the legend of Leibowitz's death.

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

7. What is Gault afraid is Hannegan's intention for the abbey?

8. Why have nuclear weapons been banned?

9. What is Paulo's primary concern at the onset of war?

10. How is Zerchi required to practice what he preaches about suffering and euthanasia?

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