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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. Where is Casaubon, in Chapter 111?
(a) The Conservatoire.
(b) Casaubon's hotel room.
(c) Aglie's house.
(d) Belbo's apartment.

2. What did Loyola do to expose and confuse the Templars?
(a) Burned all of their records.
(b) Infiltrated their ranks with spies.
(c) Created phony secret societies.
(d) Exposed aspects of their secret rituals.

3. What advice does Diotallevi give Belbo and Casaubon before leaving for his treatment regimen?
(a) To stop investigating the Plan.
(b) To designate a meeting place for the three of them when he returns.
(c) To lie low for a while and avoid detection.
(d) To find Aglie and get his advice regarding the Plan.

4. Casaubon realizes that the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers was built on whose property?
(a) Queen Elizabeth's.
(b) Francis Bacon's.
(c) John Dee's.
(d) King Phillip's.

5. Who is Casaubon most surprised to see at the ceremony at the Conservatoire?
(a) Ardenti.
(b) Garamond.
(c) Aglie.
(d) Salon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is a conclusion of Belbo's that Casaubon finds important?

2. What does Diotallevi ask Belbo about Abulafia?

3. According to the Plan, where was Napoleon initiated into the Templars?

4. The Old Man in the Mountain is the leader of what group?

5. How does Belbo begin to feel about the Plan after Diotallevi's departure?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Casaubon's speculations about Mr. Postel, in Chapter 88?

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

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

4. How does Casaubon reinterpret the message of the parchment Ardenti discovered?

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

6. What does Lia try to explain to Casaubon, in Chapter 63?

7. What do Casaubon and Lia talk about while on their family vacation?

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

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

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

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