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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What decisions did Lia make regarding her unborn baby?
(a) She decides to have the baby in her home country so it will have dual citizenship.
(b) She decides to have a water birth in a progressive hospital.
(c) She wants to keep the baby, despite knowing that it will be at great risk to herself.
(d) She decided not to find out the sex of the baby, and not to use any painkillers during delivery.

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

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

5. What does Casaubon think John Dee's motivations were?
(a) To take control of the Templars' secrets.
(b) To fragment and destroy the Templars.
(c) To create a new organization, with himself as leader.
(d) To infiltrate the Templars and spy on them for the Queen.

6. What does Belbo think the true goal of the Nazis was?
(a) To eliminate the Jewish Templars.
(b) To uncover the Templars' knowledge of telluric currents.
(c) To reestablish contact with the other Aryan branches of Templars.
(d) To find and control the Holy Grail.

7. Casaubon realizes that the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers was built on whose property?
(a) Queen Elizabeth's.
(b) Francis Bacon's.
(c) John Dee's.
(d) King Phillip's.

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

9. Why does Casaubon choose to add to the list he presents to Aglie?
(a) To try and fool Aglie into confessing something.
(b) To convince Aglie that he's not studying what Aglie thinks he is.
(c) To test Aglie's knowledge.
(d) To get more information about that society.

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

11. Casaubon believes that the information he printed out from Belbo's computer suggests a connection between the Templars and what other group?
(a) French Freemasons.
(b) British Freemasons.
(c) Spanish Inquisitors.
(d) French Rosicrucians.

12. In Belbo's account, John Dee is overtaken by whom?
(a) King Phillip.
(b) Queen Elizabeth.
(c) Francis Bacon.
(d) Jacques de Molay.

13. What did Loyola do to expose and confuse the Templars?
(a) Created phony secret societies.
(b) Infiltrated their ranks with spies.
(c) Exposed aspects of their secret rituals.
(d) Burned all of their records.

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

15. How many group members are ordered into the room by the leader of the ceremony?
(a) 42.
(b) 24.
(c) 36.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first cloaked person to kneel before the leader of the ceremony?

2. Who is the Old Man of the Mountain?

3. What was Diotallevi's reasoning for the advice he gave to Casaubon and Belbo before he left for treatment?

4. Who tries to restrain Casaubon's growing fervor for the occult in Chapter 63?

5. The land the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers was built on was originally used for what?

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