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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through First Day.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What 18th Century figure translated Adso’s work?
(a) Victor Hugo.
(b) The Abbé Vallet.
(c) Brother William.
(d) An anonymous source.

2. What book cited Adso’s manuscript?
(a) Mirror Game: Chess and the World.
(b) On Labyrinths and Libraries.
(c) Monks of the Fourteenth Century.
(d) On the Use of Mirrors in the Game of Chess.

3. What position has William held before?
(a) Cardinal.
(b) Abbot.
(c) Bishop.
(d) Inquisitor.

4. What surprises the Cellarer in ‘First Day’?
(a) That William has deigned to come to visit them.
(b) That William and Adso have arrived so early.
(c) That William knows so much about the horse.
(d) That they are there at all.

5. When does Matins take place?
(a) At 4:30 p.m.
(b) Around 6 p.m.
(c) Between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m.
(d) Before 7 p.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people can enter the top floor of the Aedificium?

2. In what year do the events of the book take place?

3. Whom did William consider his master?

4. How does William know what he tells the Cellarer in ‘First Day’?

5. When are Adso and William traveling in ‘First Day’?

(see the answer key)

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