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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Casaubon doing at the end of the novel?
(a) Trying to find the last branch of the Templars and plead for their help.
(b) Sitting at his house, waiting for the occultists to track him down and kill him.
(c) Traveling back to Brazil, trying to find Amparo so he can warn her.
(d) Seeking refuge at the Vatican.

2. How is Belbo murdered?
(a) He is hanged.
(b) He is shot.
(c) His throat is slit.
(d) He is poisoned.

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

4. In Chapter 88, Casaubon tries to understand the role of what group in the Templar conspiracy?
(a) The Jews.
(b) The Jesuits.
(c) The Muslims.
(d) The Anglican church.

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

6. Which man-made object is NOT one of the structures that Casaubon, Belbo and Diotallevi think was constructed to collect and transmit telluric energy?
(a) Stonehenge.
(b) The Statue of Liberty.
(c) The Eiffel Tower.
(d) The Pyramids.

7. What happens to Belbo when he is driving with Lorenza?
(a) He runs out of gas.
(b) He runs over a small dog.
(c) He hits a pedestrian.
(d) His car catches fire.

8. 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 wants to keep the baby, despite knowing that it will be at great risk to herself.
(c) She decides to have a water birth in a progressive hospital.
(d) She decided not to find out the sex of the baby, and not to use any painkillers during delivery.

9. What item is set up by the cloaked individuals in the Conservatoire?
(a) A large pendulum.
(b) A table and chairs.
(c) A ritual altar.
(d) An interrogation chair.

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

11. What was Diotallevi's reasoning for the advice he gave to Casaubon and Belbo before he left for treatment?
(a) He is afraid they will be apprehended when he is not there to help them.
(b) He believes his involvement in the Plan contributed to his health problems.
(c) He received information that made him believe they were in imminent danger.
(d) He didn't want Casaubon and Belbo to know that he was going to be researching in secret while he was away.

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

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

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

15. What does Casaubon think may have caused an interruption in the Templars' relay of information?
(a) The separation of church and state in England.
(b) The Templars being forced underground, and having no way to communicate openly.
(c) A discrepancy between the English and French calendars.
(d) The assassination of a group member who was supposed to inform the others.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invited Postel to leave the Templars and join another group, according to Casaubon?

2. How does Lia feel about the Plan?

3. What is one of the uncontroversial facts Casaubon enters into the computer?

4. Why doesn't Casaubon bring anyone with him to help Belbo?

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

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