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

2. What does Sister Helene interrupt Joshua doing?
(a) taking a bath
(b) translating a text
(c) stealing secret information
(d) contemplating suicide

3. How will the Church transport the Memorabilia?
(a) as memorized by the monks going on the mission
(b) on microfilm
(c) in secret compartments on the spaceship
(d) digitally in a supercomputer

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

5. How does Taddeo react to the stories of monks who have died or gone blind preserving the Memorabilia?
(a) He honors their memories.
(b) He thinks the stories are false.
(c) He wishes he could go back and save them.
(d) He is indifferent to their sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Thon Esser Shon trying to create?

3. Where does the Church plan to send a mission to preserve humanity?

4. Why does Taddeo want the measurement of how deep the wood is worn down at the entrance to the refectory?

5. Why doesn't Mrs. Grayles go to Father Selo for confession?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mad Bear's political plans.

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

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

4. Describe the legend of Leibowitz's death.

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

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

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

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

9. Describe Zerchi's dream about Rachel.

10. Why is the APLAC a necessary device?

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