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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zerchi have in his office?

2. What is Thon Esser Shon trying to create?

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

4. Why is Zerchi late to give Mrs. Grales confession?

5. What does Rachel refuse from Zerchi?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Zerchi's dream about Rachel.

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

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

5. Why is the APLAC a necessary device?

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

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

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

9. Describe the legend of Leibowitz's death.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the nature of knowledge in the novel.

Part 1) What do the Memorabilia represent? Why do the monks want to preserve it?

Part 2) Is knowledge good or evil or neutral? What are the consequences, positive and negative, of mankind's gaining of knowledge? How does knowledge in the novel relate to the story of the Garden of Eden and the fall of man for tasting the fruit of the tree of knowledge?

Part 3) Can knowledge be permanently lost?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the relationship between Dr. Cors and Zerchi to the relationship between Taddeo and Paulo. Each abbot meets a man of science who has a very different perspective than his own. Describe the conflicts arising between the abbots and the scientists, and discuss each abbot's perspective on the scientist.

Essay Topic 3

Compare the technology of Kornhoer's invention with Zerchi's malfunctioning APLAC. What do these two machines say about the respective cultures that develop them? Why are they developed? How do the characters in the novel feel about the machines? How do these machines exemplify the positive and negative aspects of technology?

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