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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 is the Vatican's response?
(a) to issue an interdict against Hannegan
(b) to promise Hannegan gold to guarantee peace
(c) to begin peace talks with Hannegan
(d) to send in Vatican forces

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

3. Why does Taddeo want the measurement of how deep the wood is worn down at the entrance to the refectory?
(a) as evidence of how well cared for the abbey is
(b) to find out if there are forgotten secret passages in the abbey
(c) to find out the average weight of the monks over the years
(d) to have evidence of how many monks passed through over how many years

4. Who is with Taddeo when he arrives?
(a) a contingent of Hannegan's men and Taddeo's companions
(b) no one
(c) Taddeo's two dozen companions
(d) a half-dozen of Hannegan's men

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After the war, what does Hannegan do to Apollo?

2. How does Taddeo greet Paulo?

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

4. What happens to the King of Loredo?

5. What does the APLAC machine do, when it works?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Armbruster's attitude toward books and toward Taddeo's studies?

2. What is the purpose of Quo peregrinaqtur grex?

3. Why doesn't Taddeo want to alienate Hannegan?

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

5. Why does Paulo feel like a shoemaker in a village of shoemakers?

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

7. Why is Paulo opposed to euthanasia?

8. Who is eligible for euthanasia?

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

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

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