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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Belbo feels that real life is like what type of fiction?
(a) Great works of art.
(b) Dime store thrillers.
(c) Philosophical works.
(d) Shakespearean tragedy.

2. What does Casaubon discover, when reading the files he prints out from Belbo's computer?
(a) Belbo has begun to actually believe that the Plan is true.
(b) Belbo knew that he was going to be murdered, and did nothing to stop it.
(c) Belbo has woven the connections they discovered into a fictional account.
(d) Belbo has taken all of the credit for the work done by all three of them.

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

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

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

6. Casaubon's group surmises that the purpose of Foucault's pendulum is what?
(a) To show the precise location of the control center for the telluric currents.
(b) Predicting large shifts in the Earth's magnetic field.
(c) Sending messages in Morse code.
(d) Displaying a pattern that correlates with the flow of the telluric currents.

7. Who tries to restrain Casaubon's growing fervor for the occult in Chapter 63?
(a) Lia.
(b) Salon.
(c) Amparo.
(d) Aglie.

8. Who was John Dee?
(a) The person responsible for breaking the Templars' relay of information.
(b) The head astrologer to the English Queen.
(c) The head of the English Templars.
(d) All answers are correct.

9. According to Salon, what group actually has no involvement in the underground tunnels?
(a) The Freemasons.
(b) The Nazis.
(c) The French.
(d) The Jews.

10. Who injures Aglie during the ceremony at the Conservatoire?
(a) Lorenza.
(b) Belbo.
(c) Madame Olcott.
(d) Casaubon.

11. What do the cloaked individuals want from Belbo?
(a) Casaubon's whereabouts.
(b) A map.
(c) Decoded information.
(d) An oath of allegiance.

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

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

14. What were the relations between Napoleon and the Jesuits and Jews?
(a) Napoleon was ambivalent regarding the Jesuits and Jews.
(b) Napoleon was always friendly with the Jesuits and Jews.
(c) Napoleon declared open war on the Jesuits and Jews.
(d) Napoleon eventually realigned himself, after a period of animosity, with the Jesuits and Jews.

15. Which is NOT a meeting place of the Templars, according to Casaubon's interpretation of the parchment?
(a) Spain.
(b) Portugal.
(c) France.
(d) Jerusalem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Loyola do to expose and confuse the Templars?

2. After his initiation, Napoleon attempts to seek out a group of Templars in what country?

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

4. Why does Casaubon think the parchment was written?

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

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