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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 the Greek word for knowledge that Casaubon mentions?
(a) Diabolos.
(b) Gnosis.
(c) Deus.
(d) Philos.

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

3. According to Casaubon's reinterpretation of Ardenti's parchment, how often are the Templars instructed to meet?
(a) Every 600 years.
(b) Whenever they must appoint a successor for their leader.
(c) Whenever a new French king is crowned.
(d) Every 120 years.

4. What object was Loyola seeking?
(a) The Arc of the Covenant.
(b) A piece of Christ's cross.
(c) The missing piece of the Templars' map.
(d) The Holy Grail.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Casaubon want Belbo to use Abulafia for?

2. Casaubon believes that the information he printed out from Belbo's computer suggests a connection between the Templars and what other group?

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

4. Who was John Dee?

5. Why does Casaubon think the parchment was written?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experiment does Casaubon want to conduct with Abulafia?

2. What deduction do Casaubon and his group make about the Pendulum's purpose, in Chapter 99?

3. Which cloaked individuals does Casaubon recognize?

4. Why does Casaubon enter randomly chosen lines of text, which have nothing to do with the occult, into the computer?

5. What happens to Belbo, at the end of the novel?

6. What is set up by the cloaked individuals in the Conservatoire?

7. What happens in the story Belbo creates from Abulafia's printouts?

8. What does Aglie want Belbo to transport for him?

9. What is the final piece of information for the Plan, supplied by Salon?

10. What happens to Casaubon at the end of the novel?

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