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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 was the purpose of the Tower of Babel according to Philidor?
(a) To understand the language of God
(b) To protect the city
(c) To reach Heaven
(d) To search for the service

2. What does David believe is the only thing that will save France from itself?
(a) Finding the chess set
(b) Catherine
(c) Valentine and Mireille
(d) Robespierre

3. What was the abandoned Abbey converted into?
(a) Prison
(b) Orphanage
(c) Business
(d) Church

4. What year is it when the novel opens?
(a) 1800
(b) 1790
(c) 1750
(d) 1700

5. How was Fiske killed?
(a) Stabbed
(b) Shot
(c) Hung
(d) Broken neck

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Mireille disguised as she attempts to leave Paris?

2. What does the Tribunal man want to know?

3. What symbol does the Bishop see on one of the eight pieces of the Montglane Service?

4. What does Nim potentially provide Catherine in Algeria?

5. What causes the mystical spell to be broken?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Valentine and Mireille doing when they are disturbed by a handsome man and who is this man?

2. What happens when Camille encounters the Bishop when he arrives at Robespierre's home?

3. What steps does Catherine take on her own once she and Lily split up to complete research?

4. When David arrives, what information does he find out about Valentine and what happens to her?

5. What story does Catherine tell the Abbess to convince the Abbess that it is important that she receive the entire Service?

6. What work does Kamel want Catherine to complete for him which surprises Catherine and catches her off guard?

7. What story does the Bishop tell Mireille and Valentine after the opera when they spend the night at his home?

8. To whom does Lily introduce Catherine and what happens during their meeting?

9. Describe Catherine's incident with the fortune teller and her reaction to the entire encounter.

10. Why does Catherine Velis believe that she is being sent to Algeria by her accounting firm?

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