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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. Why is Paulo fasting?
(a) because he is praying for peace
(b) because he knows the abbey is short on food
(c) because of his stomach problems
(d) because he is too worried to eat

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

3. What does the mythological Blackeneth do?
(a) sets off the first nuclear device
(b) warns the prince against hubris in starting wars
(c) provides the technology to make the Great Fire
(d) convinces the prince that it's okay to use small numbers of nuclear weapons

4. How has Taddeo responded to the Memorabilia?
(a) He says that he will be able to understand it all within 5 years.
(b) He says too much is lost to make sense of it.
(c) He is amazed at the amount of lost knowledge, which will take decades to fully understand.
(d) He believes that most of the Memorabilia is faked and meaningless.

5. What does God do to the prince in the myth of the Flame Deluge?
(a) sentences him to walk the Earth eternally
(b) banishes him to Purgatory
(c) slays him
(d) saves him when the prince repents

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zerchi have in his office?

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

3. Who is Mrs. Grales?

4. What does Taddeo believe the monks have done?

5. What name does the Old Jew go by in Chapter 25?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the implication of Rachel refusing baptism?

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

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

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

6. Who is eligible for euthanasia?

7. What story does Zerchi tell the dying woman, to convince her not to kill herself and her child?

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

9. Why is the APLAC a necessary device?

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

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