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

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

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

4. What does Mrs. Grales want the abbot to do?
(a) baptize Rachel
(b) give Rachel communion
(c) take Rachel off the planet
(d) give Rachel a last confession

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rachel?

2. What does the mythological Blackeneth do?

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

4. How long does the abbot give Joshua to decide whether to go on the mission to Alpha Centauri?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the purpose of Quo peregrinaqtur grex?

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

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

8. Describe the legend of Leibowitz's death.

9. Why is Paulo opposed to euthanasia?

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

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