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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. It becomes clear in Chapter 101 that Diotallevi is dying from what?
(a) Liver failure.
(b) Kidney disease.
(c) Heart failure.
(d) Cancer.

2. What does Casaubon want Belbo to use Abulafia for?
(a) Combining information from the Diabolicals' manuscripts.
(b) Calculating all the possible permutations of the name of God.
(c) Organizing all of the information Casaubon has uncovered so far.
(d) Keeping a journal of ideas, to which they can refer later.

3. What does Casaubon discover, when reading the files he prints out from Belbo's computer?
(a) Belbo has begun to actually believe that the Plan is true.
(b) Belbo knew that he was going to be murdered, and did nothing to stop it.
(c) Belbo has taken all of the credit for the work done by all three of them.
(d) Belbo has woven the connections they discovered into a fictional account.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Casaubon feel about the items he sees in the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers?

2. What ailment does Diotallevi claim to have in Chapter 100?

3. What secret society does Casaubon decide to add to the list he presents to Aglie?

4. Belbo and Casaubon interpret the computer's output to mean that Jesus fathered what line of kings?

5. What were the relations between Napoleon and the Jesuits and Jews?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Diotallevi in Chapter 101?

2. Which cloaked individuals does Casaubon recognize?

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

4. What story does Casaubon's group devise from Abulafia's output?

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

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

7. What conclusion does Belbo reach, regarding Francis Bacon, in the Plan?

8. According to Casaubon's theory about the Jesuits, who were the Rosicrucians and the Scottish Rite Freemasons?

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

10. What was the relationship between the Templars and the Jesuits, according to Casaubon's theory?

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