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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 is the media asking Olivetti for after they catch wind of the Cardinals in danger?

2. Who took the Camerlengo in after his mother was killed?

3. What information does Langdon want from the Hassassin before he kills him?

4. What does Vittoria do when she sees Langdon alive after his fall?

5. What does Macri do when she is told to give her footage of the second killing to the Swiss Guards?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the new Pope tell Langdon to do with his secret information about the Camerlengo?

2. What is Kohler doing as Langdon is trying to escape from the overturned sarcophagus?

3. What causes Dr. Jacobus to start believing in a higher being?

4. How does Kohler think his experience at the Vatican will end?

5. How was the second cardinal murdered?

6. What confuses Langdon when he sees the chest of Illuminati seals?

7. What happens with Langdon and Vittoria at the end of the book?

8. What happens when Vittoria tries to give the second cardinal mouth-to-mouth?

9. What does the recorded video from Kohler reveal?

10. Why does the Hassassin not alert the media to the site of the third Altar of Science?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How do Langdon and Vittoria change through the course of the book, individually and in their relationship with one another, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Dan Brown have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

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