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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 Cors do when he breaks his promise to the abbot?

2. What does the statue at the mercy camp resemble?

3. What happens to the King of Loredo?

4. What do the Asians claim the nuclear detonation is?

5. What does Taddeo believe the monks have done?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the APLAC a necessary device?

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

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

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

6. How is Zerchi required to practice what he preaches about suffering and euthanasia?

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

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

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

10. How does Mad Bear view Taddeo's party?

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

Discuss leadership in the novel. What qualities make for a good leader? Discuss both political leaders and religious leaders portrayed in the book. How do their leadership styles and beliefs lead to success and failure, both personally and for the communities they lead?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the mutations in the novel.

Part 1) How do the mutated humans in the novel stretch the definition of what it means to be human? How do they create quandaries for the Church, in defining humanity?

Part 2) How do the normal humans in the novel treat the mutants, and what does this say about humanity?

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