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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Casaubon move?

2. What job does Casaubon get in Chapter 37?

3. What is the name of the other publishing company Mr. Garamond runs?

4. What happens to Colonel Ardenti in Chapter 24?

5. Why is Mr. Garamond's office connected to Garamond Press by a secret passageway?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Casaubon and Belbo overhear when they go to visit Aglie?

2. Why are the Rosicrucians so difficult to research, compared to the Knights Templar?

3. How is Signor Aglie described?

4. How does Aglie feel about Lorenza?

5. What is Project Hermes?

6. Who is Casaubon?

7. How did the official end of the Knights Templar occur?

8. What do Salon and Casaubon discuss during their first reunion in the mine?

9. How do Belbo and Casaubon become involved with the police, in Chapter 24?

10. What were the origins of the Knights Templar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lorenza's relationship with Belbo is a complicated one. How does Belbo feel about her, and how does she respond? What effect does their relationship have on Belbo? How is she involved in Belbo's murder? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 2

The author includes a great deal of technical information related to mathematics, physics, and other scientific disciplines. What purpose does this information serve in the novel? Why does the author choose to include it? How would the novel be different without the addition of this information? Do you agree with its inclusion, or would the novel have been better without it? Why? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 3

The Knights Templar are one of the main occult groups presented in the novel. Why is so little known about them? Why are they so central to a variety of beliefs and traditions? Why are scholars so interested in them after so many centuries? What information presented regarding the Templars is fact, and what is speculation? Be sure to cite specific examples from the text to support your thesis.

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