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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. How long does the Hassassin wait in the stone tunnel before entering the door that was opened for him after he steals the anti-matter?
2. What legendary emblem has no academic man ever seen until Vetra's death?
3. What time will the battery on the canister of antimatter run out?
4. What does Vittoria hope that antimatter will be?
5. What is the small entrance to the first Altar of Science called?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is held in Vault 10 of the Vatican Archives?
2. How does Vittoria get a hold of the Camerlengo when she and Langdon are detained at the Vatican?
3. What is antimatter?
4. What happens to Kohler just as Langdon and Vittoria get on the plane to head to the Vatican?
5. How much will one square yard of drag slowdown a falling human body?
6. What is the name of the incredibly fast plane that Langdon rides to Switzerland?
7. How was the first cardinal murdered?
8. Aside from the human lives, what else is the antimatter threatening by being housed in the Vatican?
9. How did Vittoria first meet Vetra?
10. Where in the book is the footnote that Vittoria finds as a clue to the location of the first Altar of Science?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Power and dominance were things sought by many different characters in this book. Which characters sought for power and who was successful?
Essay Topic 2
What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?
Essay Topic 3
Kohler was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did he accomplish this? What are some ways that his presence, however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if Kohler had not been in the book at all?
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