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

2. What group does Casaubon think Postel joined, after being a Templar initiate?
(a) The Freemasons.
(b) The Society of Jesus.
(c) The Anglo-Saxons.
(d) The Rosicrucians.

3. Why does Lorenza make Belbo leave the restaurant where they are supposed to have lunch?
(a) Their table is near Aglie's.
(b) She owes money to the owner.
(c) She sees a cockroach crawl under their table.
(d) She thinks they are being watched.

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

5. After his initiation, Napoleon attempts to seek out a group of Templars in what country?
(a) Russia.
(b) France.
(c) Egypt.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. The group led by the Old Man in the Mountain associates itself with what other group?

2. What is one of the uncontroversial facts Casaubon enters into the computer?

3. What does Aglie ask Belbo to do for him?

4. Casaubon realizes that the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers was built on whose property?

5. Which man-made object is NOT one of the structures that Casaubon, Belbo and Diotallevi think was constructed to collect and transmit telluric energy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happens to Belbo after receiving the last piece of the Plan from Salon?

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