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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. What awakens Silas when the police arrive?
(a) Silas' instincts
(b) a knock on the door
(c) a police siren
(d) a phone call

2. What the three inside the house do not know is that outside, __________ is in the bushes, waiting for the chance to enter the house and retrieve the keystone.
(a) Aringarosa
(b) Vernet
(c) Fache
(d) Silas

3. Collet's man found a ladder leading up to a loft that housed _____________ in the barn.
(a) an escaped prisoner
(b) a safe
(c) a computer work station
(d) a briefcase

4. Everyone escapes the house and Teabing then tells them that they are headed to a local airfield to fly where on his jet?
(a) Paris
(b) Rome
(c) Brussels
(d) London

5. While Fache oversees the destruction of the safe in Teabing's plane, he receives a phone call from whom?
(a) Collet
(b) Vernet
(c) Langdon
(d) Teabing

Short Answer Questions

1. While Sophie and Langdon try to find a docent to point them toward the tomb, who has already found it?

2. Sophie kicks Silas in what part of his body?

3. What illness did Teabing suffer from?

4. Sophie notices that the tenth tomb does not have __________ and she calls the others over.

5. Aringarosa was also traveling by air at the same time as Teabing's group, en route to where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Fache's actual role in the book and how is it revealed in Chapters 101 through 104?

2. How, in this section, does the author emphasize the implications of finding the Holy Grail?

3. What important things are revealed in Chapters 59 through 63?

4. What are the reasons that Langdon and Sophie suspect that Jacques passed on his secrets to them as stated in Chapters 59 through 63?

5. Do you agree with Langdon's decision to go to Teabing's, in Chapters 50 through 54? Why or why not?

6. What is the cryptex and how is it discovered?

7. What does the rain, as Silas enters Opus Dei, seem to symbolize?

8. Explain why you do or do not feel bad for Silas.

9. What important twist occurs in Chapter 87 and how does the author use it to build suspense?

10. What does Teabing point out about the painting of The Last Supper and what questions does it raise?

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