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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Old Man in the Mountain is the leader of what group?
(a) The Muslim Society.
(b) The Diabolicals.
(c) The Assassins.
(d) The Jewish Templars.

2. To what country does Casaubon travel to visit a Templar temple?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Russia.
(d) France.

3. Where do Belbo and Lorenza go while Casaubon is on vacation?
(a) The capital city.
(b) The beach.
(c) The river.
(d) The mountains.

4. What does Diotallevi ask Belbo about Abulafia?
(a) If it could help them solve the mystery of the Sephirot.
(b) If it could recombine the Torah.
(c) How long it takes to perform calculations and permutations.
(d) Why Belbo chose to name it that.

5. Where does Casaubon go to inquire about Aglie in Chapter 112?
(a) A museum.
(b) A small occult bookstore.
(c) A coffee shop.
(d) A popular bar.

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

7. Where is Casaubon, in Chapter 111?
(a) Belbo's apartment.
(b) The Conservatoire.
(c) Aglie's house.
(d) Casaubon's hotel room.

8. Why doesn't Casaubon bring anyone with him to help Belbo?
(a) He doesn't dare tell anyone about Belbo's predicament.
(b) There is no one in Milan to help him.
(c) Everyone Casaubon knows has turned against Belbo.
(d) No one knows Casaubon is still associated with Belbo.

9. Who is Kelly?
(a) Francis Bacon's lover.
(b) An associate of John Dee's.
(c) Belbo's first wife.
(d) Jacques de Molay's wife.

10. Which cloaked individual is leading the ceremony in the Conservatoire?
(a) Belbo.
(b) Diotallevi.
(c) Bramanti.
(d) Aglie.

11. Where is Belbo's boyhood home?
(a) Milan.
(b) Venezia.
(c) Roma.
(d) Piedmont.

12. Salon tells Casaubon that the Nazis are allied with whom?
(a) The Russians.
(b) The Turks.
(c) The Spanish.
(d) The French.

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

14. What secret society does Casaubon decide to add to the list he presents to Aglie?
(a) Santerians.
(b) Rosicrucians.
(c) Freemasons.
(d) Tres.

15. According to the computer's output, where did Jesus marry Mary Magdalene?
(a) Palestine.
(b) Cana.
(c) France.
(d) Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object was Loyola seeking?

2. What does Casaubon think John Dee's motivations were?

3. It becomes clear in Chapter 101 that Diotallevi is dying from what?

4. Belbo and Casaubon interpret the computer's output to mean that Jesus fathered what line of kings?

5. What advice does Diotallevi give Belbo and Casaubon before leaving for his treatment regimen?

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