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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Belbo when he is driving with Lorenza?
(a) He runs out of gas.
(b) His car catches fire.
(c) He hits a pedestrian.
(d) He runs over a small dog.

2. How does Casaubon feel about the items he sees in the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers?
(a) He wonders if their makers were involved in occult activities.
(b) He hardly takes notice of them.
(c) He wonders why people are so interested in old machinery.
(d) He suspects a dark, occult purpose for each one.

3. Who is Casaubon most surprised to see at the ceremony at the Conservatoire?
(a) Garamond.
(b) Salon.
(c) Aglie.
(d) Ardenti.

4. What is the Greek word for knowledge that Casaubon mentions?
(a) Deus.
(b) Diabolos.
(c) Philos.
(d) Gnosis.

5. Who is pursuing Belbo, in Chapter 101?
(a) Rosicrucians.
(b) Jesuits.
(c) Diabolicals.
(d) Templars.

6. According to Casaubon's conclusions after talking to Salon, what role do the Jews play in the Templar conspiracy?
(a) He could make no conclusion.
(b) They are out to disrupt and destroy the Templars for good.
(c) They are the only true branch of Templars.
(d) They are a red herring.

7. Belbo thinks that Nazis were a branch of what?
(a) Jesuits.
(b) Zionists.
(c) Neo-Templars.
(d) Rosicrucians.

8. Who began an anti-Semitic campaign to draw out the Jewish Templars?
(a) The French Rosicrucians.
(b) The Slavic Templars.
(c) The Israeli Cabbalists.
(d) The German Templars.

9. According to Casaubon's group, what was the reason for the founding of the Rosicrucians?
(a) To provide a place for members of the Templars who were excommunicated, or looking for something else.
(b) To help carry messages between Templar groups unobtrusively.
(c) To expose the true Templar groups in Germany.
(d) To provide a place for the Templars to store their wealth.

10. Casaubon reads a story, written by Belbo during his boyhood, about what musical instrument?
(a) Guitar.
(b) Drum.
(c) Clarinet.
(d) Trumpet.

11. Aglie claims that there are how many groups associated with Freemasonry?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

12. What is Aglie's response to the group Casaubon adds to the list?
(a) He becomes angry, thinking Casaubon is trying to trick him.
(b) He doesn't know anything about them, but tries to bluff and claim that he does.
(c) He is embarrassed, knowing that Casaubon has caught him lying about his esoteric knowledge.
(d) He has never heard of it, and wants to know more.

13. Why does Casaubon choose to enter seemingly meaningless information into Abulafia?
(a) To throw pursuers off their trail.
(b) To see if the computer's calculations are accurate.
(c) To see if the computer can differentiate between significant and meaningless data.
(d) To test the theory that all information is truly interconnected.

14. The land the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers was built on was originally used for what?
(a) A training ground for knights.
(b) A cathedral.
(c) Growing secret herbs.
(d) A priory.

15. What group does Casaubon think Postel joined, after being a Templar initiate?
(a) The Rosicrucians.
(b) The Society of Jesus.
(c) The Anglo-Saxons.
(d) The Freemasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the relations between Napoleon and the Jesuits and Jews?

2. The Tzarist agent was central in creating what?

3. What is Casaubon doing at the end of the novel?

4. What does Casaubon think may have caused an interruption in the Templars' relay of information?

5. Casaubon's group surmises that the purpose of Foucault's pendulum is what?

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