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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. Silas begins the practice of corporal mortification, which means what?
(a) beating himself
(b) having someone else beat him
(c) beating an animal
(d) beating someone else

2. Sister Sandrine Bieil lived in a suite within the Church of what?
(a) Saint-Sacrifice
(b) Saint-Sarnalice
(c) Saint-Suffice
(d) Saint-Sulpice

3. The Opus Dei World Headquarters is located on Lexington Avenue in what U.S. city?
(a) Boston
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Chicago
(d) New York City

4. How does Fache think Langdon escaped from the museum?
(a) by using a secret tunnel in the basement
(b) by going out the bathroom window
(c) by jumping from the rooftop to the roof of an adjoining building
(d) by dressing as a guard and walking out the front door

5. Who does Silas follow deep into the church?
(a) the handyman
(b) Father Ferdinand
(c) Sister Sandrine
(d) Brother Benjamin

Short Answer Questions

1. Part of the message the curator left before he died read what?

2. What is the person Silas works for referred to as?

3. Sophie tells Langdon that Jacques was whose grandfather?

4. Who is horrified when Sophie tells him her grandfather is Jacques Sauniere?

5. Langdon shared that the pentacle specifically represents _________, the goddess of sexual love?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Langdon's reaction to the murder, up to the end of Chapter 5?

2. How does the author, Dan Brown, use the thoughts of the characters to move the story along?

3. What is Opus Dei and what role does it play in the story so far?

4. How do Sophie and Langdon finally find what they are looking for at the bank?

5. Describe Sophie's role in Langdon's visit to the museum so far.

6. What happens when Sophie and Langdon finally reach the American Embassy?

7. Do you agree with Sophie's actions regarding helping Langdon so far? How would you feel after not speaking to Jacques for several years and then finding out that he died?

8. Do you think Sophie was justified in throwing the police tracking dot out the window and trying to hide Langdon's escape from the police?

9. How is Jacques' museum message resolved in Chapters 29-31?

10. If you were the albino attacker, would you have shot Jacques as quickly? Why or why not?

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