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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. Why does Casaubon choose to enter seemingly meaningless information into Abulafia?
(a) To throw pursuers off their trail.
(b) To see if the computer can differentiate between significant and meaningless data.
(c) To see if the computer's calculations are accurate.
(d) To test the theory that all information is truly interconnected.

2. Belbo thinks that Nazis were a branch of what?
(a) Rosicrucians.
(b) Jesuits.
(c) Neo-Templars.
(d) Zionists.

3. Who demands that Belbo be sacrificed?
(a) Aglie.
(b) Salon.
(c) The Frenchman.
(d) Lorenza.

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

5. Who is the Old Man of the Mountain?
(a) Hassan-i-Sabbah.
(b) Ali Mahmoudi.
(c) Francis Bacon.
(d) Aglie.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the Greek word for knowledge that Casaubon mentions?

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

5. Where does Casaubon go to inquire about Aglie in Chapter 112?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Napoleon's role in the Jesuit-Templar conflict?

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

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

4. What does Aglie tell Casaubon's group about the Freemasons?

5. What happens during the trip Belbo takes with Lorenza?

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

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

8. Why does Casaubon include a group not related to the Freemasons when constructing his time line?

9. What happens to Diotallevi in Chapter 101?

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

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