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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 38-49 (Gevurah 38-49).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Belbo's profession?
(a) Physicist.
(b) Writer.
(c) Inventor.
(d) Editor.

2. What is the name of the occult book series published by Mr. Garamond's vanity press?
(a) Project Hermes.
(b) Diabolicals.
(c) Isis Unveiled.
(d) Hermetica.

3. Belbo makes a statement about the subject of most of the manuscripts delivered to him by what group of people?
(a) Morons.
(b) Fools.
(c) Lunatics.
(d) Cretins.

4. Who is Lorenza?
(a) Casaubon's research partner.
(b) Diotallevi's sister.
(c) A young woman with whom Belbo fell in love.
(d) Belbo's nickname for his computer.

5. What happens to Colonel Ardenti in Chapter 24?
(a) He dies of a heart attack.
(b) He is taken prisoner by a mysterious group.
(c) He is publicly ostracized after the publication of his book, and goes mad.
(d) He is murdered.

Short Answer Questions

1. Belbo claims he is being chased by whom?

2. What is the School of Comparative Irrelevance?

3. When did Casaubon and Belbo meet?

4. What rumors began to circulate about the Knights Templar, as word of their success spread?

5. What is the main character looking at, in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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