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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Casaubon's relationship with Amparo end?
(a) Amparo becomes fed up with the amount of time Casaubon spends on his research, and leaves him.
(b) She goes to stay with friends, and never returns.
(c) She cuts off contact with him because she is afraid of the people that are pursuing him because of his research.
(d) Amparo is murdered.

2. Which member of Casaubon's group leaves to go home before arriving at the ritual?
(a) Belbo.
(b) Lorenza.
(c) Salon.
(d) Diotallevi.

3. Where is Agartha located?
(a) High in the Himalayas.
(b) Under the tectonic plate Italy rests on.
(c) In another dimension.
(d) In the Dead Sea.

4. Who is Ingolf?
(a) A "lunatic" who submitted his manuscript, about the Templars, to Belbo's company.
(b) A rich Parisian who collected a wealth of information about the Templars.
(c) A well-read man, who found a mysterious parchment in a tunnel.
(d) One of Casaubon's professors, and a revolutionary.

5. Who or what is Abulafia?
(a) Belbo's computer.
(b) Casaubon's girlfriend.
(c) A Hebrew code of letters and numbers.
(d) Diotallevi's electronic journal.

6. Aglie agrees to act as a consultant for Belbo and Casaubon free of charge, on what condition?
(a) They tell no one that he is working for them.
(b) Casaubon and Belbo stop their work on the Plan.
(c) The manuscripts they send him aren't boring.
(d) Casaubon helps him with some research.

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

8. What does Aglie tell Casaubon about himself?
(a) He is extremely interested in the Templars, for very personal reasons.
(b) He is ageless, and has seen many things.
(c) He believes he has been reincarnated many times.
(d) He can trace his bloodline, unbroken, back to the first group of Templars.

9. What is the topic of Casaubon's dissertation?
(a) The Inquisition.
(b) The history of the Catholic church.
(c) The Knights Templar.
(d) Pope Innocent III.

10. What is the name of Casaubon's Milanese neighbor?
(a) Aglie.
(b) Salon.
(c) Lorenza.
(d) Comte.

11. What happened to the political radicals in Milan, while Casaubon was away?
(a) Most of them were arrested, and the rest formed an underground society.
(b) They migrated away from politics, and toward psychology and transcendental meditation.
(c) They staged a coup, and overthrew the city's government.
(d) They rioted and were driven out of the city, and now communicate via encoded messages.

12. When did Casaubon and Belbo meet?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1950s.
(d) The 1960s.

13. What idea is commonly associated with Agartha?
(a) Symbiosis.
(b) Synarchy.
(c) Creationism.
(d) Enlightenment.

14. On his way to the ceremony, Casaubon observes members of what group of people?
(a) Rosicrucians.
(b) Diabolicals.
(c) Freemasons.
(d) Cabbalists.

15. To what order does Professor Bramanti belong?
(a) The Rosicrucians.
(b) The Knights Templar.
(c) The Cabbalists.
(d) The Freemasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the narrator of the novel?

2. Where does Casaubon move, in Chapter 25?

3. After meeting Aglie, Casaubon begins researching which esoteric group?

4. Why does Belbo want Casaubon to meet Mr. Garamond, in Chapter 37?

5. What is The Plan?

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