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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 Vittoria do when she sees Langdon alive after his fall?

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

3. What does Glick see as he and Macri watch the front of the first church?

4. How does Langdon get past the outer wall of the fourth Altar of Science?

5. What does Langdon dream about the night after the Camerlengo's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Camerlengo devise such a horrible plan?

2. How does the Hassassin die?

3. What are the people in St. Peter's Square chanting when they see the Camerlengo appear on the Basilica after the explosion of the antimatter?

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

5. How does Langdon escape from the Vatican Archives when he is locked in as the power is shut off?

6. Who is the 11th hour Samaritan?

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

8. What does Vittoria see in the dead Pope's body that indicates he was poisoned?

9. How did Kohler become paralyzed?

10. Why does the Hassassin not kill Vittoria like he did Olivetti in the burning church?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The antimatter was a dangerous but integral part of this plot. What about the antimatter made it so important, and how did its presence affect the plot?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

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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