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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. How does Zerchi respond to news reports about the nuclear crisis?
(a) He is cautiously optimistic.
(b) He trusts God to save him.
(c) He is complacent.
(d) He is enraged.

2. How does the Poet die?
(a) He commits suicide.
(b) He runs out of water while he is lost in the desert.
(c) He is shot while stabbing an officer who is trying to capture refugees.
(d) He is hanged for treason.

3. What does the statue at the mercy camp resemble?
(a) a weeping mother
(b) the President
(c) Christ
(d) the Old Jew

4. What does Zerchi do to Cors after the girl and her baby go to the mercy camp?
(a) He promises to allow him access to the abbey.
(b) He excommunicates him.
(c) He forgives him.
(d) He hits him.

5. How does Taddeo think the monks may react to his ideas?
(a) He is afraid they will be offended.
(b) He thinks none of them could understand, even in simple language.
(c) He thinks that they will be welcoming but skeptical.
(d) He thinks they will all praise him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rachel say to Zerchi?

2. How does Zerchi react to Mercy Camp Number 18 being set up down the road?

3. Why does Mad Bear stop raiding Hannegan?

4. What is Thon Maho Makh investigating?

5. Who steals one of the officers' drawings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the implication of Rachel refusing baptism?

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

3. Who is eligible for euthanasia?

4. Describe Mad Bear's political plans.

5. What might lead the reader to believe Benjamin's story about his age?

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

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

8. Describe the legend of Leibowitz's death.

9. Why can't Cors keep his promise to Zerchi?

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

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