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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Lorenza make Belbo leave the restaurant where they are supposed to have lunch?
(a) She thinks they are being watched.
(b) She owes money to the owner.
(c) Their table is near Aglie's.
(d) She sees a cockroach crawl under their table.

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

5. Where is John Dee's alleged meeting with the mystics?
(a) Provins.
(b) Prague.
(c) Milan.
(d) Rio de Janeiro.

6. What is one of the uncontroversial facts Casaubon enters into the computer?
(a) The equator divides the earth into two hemispheres.
(b) Butter and cheese are made from milk.
(c) Mickey Mouse is married to Minnie Mouse.
(d) There are seven stars in the constellation Orion.

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

8. What do Casaubon, Diotallevi and Belbo want to to do with the stories created by Abulafia?
(a) Establish a church.
(b) Create a new religion.
(c) Start a cult.
(d) Sell them.

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

10. Who invited Postel to leave the Templars and join another group, according to Casaubon?
(a) Loyola.
(b) Francis Bacon.
(c) John Dee.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

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. What advice does Diotallevi give Belbo and Casaubon before leaving for his treatment regimen?
(a) To stop investigating the Plan.
(b) To lie low for a while and avoid detection.
(c) To find Aglie and get his advice regarding the Plan.
(d) To designate a meeting place for the three of them when he returns.

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

14. What quality of his story does Belbo see as a virtue, instead of a vice?
(a) Its complexity.
(b) Its believability.
(c) Its fictionalization of historical characters.
(d) Its bizarreness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the mysterious caller ask Belbo to go to Paris?

2. When Casaubon shows Lia the parchment that started his involvement in the Plan, what does she think is written on it?

3. What does Diotallevi ask Belbo about Abulafia?

4. How does Lia feel about the Plan?

5. What does the computer's output suggest about the crucifixion of Christ?

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