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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Belbo's profession?
(a) Writer.
(b) Physicist.
(c) Editor.
(d) Inventor.

2. When did Casaubon and Belbo meet?
(a) The 1960s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1980s.

3. How does Casaubon's relationship with Amparo end?
(a) She goes to stay with friends, and never returns.
(b) Amparo becomes fed up with the amount of time Casaubon spends on his research, and leaves him.
(c) She cuts off contact with him because she is afraid of the people that are pursuing him because of his research.
(d) Amparo is murdered.

4. Who is Gudrun?
(a) Belbo's secretary.
(b) Casaubon's maid.
(c) Diotallevi's wife.
(d) Belbo's girlfriend.

5. Why is Casaubon looking for a hiding spot, in Chapter 1?
(a) He is being pursued by someone.
(b) He is running from the police.
(c) The museum he is in is about to close.
(d) He is homeless and has nowhere to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Colonel Ardenti?

2. What does Colonel Ardenti think the Holy Grail might actually be?

3. Casaubon compares Aglie to whom?

4. What is the Hebrew name of God?

5. What is the topic of Casaubon's dissertation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Belbo and Casaubon become involved with the police, in Chapter 24?

2. How is Signor Aglie described?

3. How did the official end of the Knights Templar occur?

4. What do Salon and Casaubon discuss during their first reunion in the mine?

5. How does Aglie feel about Lorenza?

6. What is Casaubon doing, as the novel opens?

7. Why does Professor Bramanti meet with Mr. Garamond?

8. Why do Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon meet at Pilade's in Chapter 13?

9. What do Casaubon and De Angelis discuss at their second meeting?

10. What changed, in Italy, during the time that Casaubon was living in Brazil?

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