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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Belbo begin to feel about the Plan after Diotallevi's departure?
(a) He begins to think that it must be true because it all fits together too perfectly.
(b) He suddenly divorces himself from it, and refuses to discuss it with Casaubon.
(c) He decides it doesn't matter whether the Plan is true; since he doesn't have anything else, he will believe it is true.
(d) He begins to think he was divinely inspired to write the Plan.

3. According to the Plan, where was Napoleon initiated into the Templars?
(a) Egypt.
(b) France.
(c) Bulgaria.
(d) Spain.

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

5. Why does Casaubon think the parchment was written?
(a) As part of an active attempt to make contact with other groups.
(b) To throw off the people who were pursuing the parchment's authors.
(c) To divert attention from their real plan.
(d) As part of a conspiracy to frame some of the group's members.

6. Where is Casaubon's group at the beginning of Chapter 63?
(a) Piedmont.
(b) Turin.
(c) Rome.
(d) Milan.

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

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

9. When Casaubon shows Lia the parchment that started his involvement in the Plan, what does she think is written on it?
(a) A shopping list.
(b) A map.
(c) A secret code, more advanced than Casaubon thought.
(d) A list of birthdates.

10. Who is the Old Man of the Mountain?
(a) Francis Bacon.
(b) Aglie.
(c) Hassan-i-Sabbah.
(d) Ali Mahmoudi.

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

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

13. What does Aglie ask Belbo to do for him?
(a) Convey a message to Casaubon.
(b) Bring a suitcase full of books to Florence.
(c) Pass a message along to one of Aglie's friends.
(d) Help him investigate a new lead that he found.

14. How does Lia feel about the Plan?
(a) She thinks it is absurd, and tries to get Casaubon to drop it.
(b) She refuses to discuss it with Casaubon.
(c) She begins to become interested in it, despite her initial aversion.
(d) She is as whole-heartedly interested as Casaubon is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Casaubon think wrote the parchment?

2. Who was John Dee?

3. Which man-made object is NOT one of the structures that Casaubon, Belbo and Diotallevi think was constructed to collect and transmit telluric energy?

4. What do Casaubon, Diotallevi and Belbo want to to do with the stories created by Abulafia?

5. What is Salon's profession?

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