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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has William come to the monastery?
(a) To study a manuscript.
(b) To investigate the death of Adelmo.
(c) To learn about potions.
(d) To rest.

2. What area of the abbey is forbidden to William?
(a) The church.
(b) The gardens.
(c) The library.
(d) The scriptorium.

3. Whom did Adso accompany on his travels?
(a) His father.
(b) The abbot.
(c) Ubartino.
(d) Brother William of Baskerville.

4. When is the narrator now writing, according to the Preface?
(a) 1884
(b) 1968
(c) 1932
(d) 1980

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Salvatore speak?

2. What is the first monk Adso and William meet looking for?

3. When does Compline take place?

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

5. In the Preface, what language is the current narrator writing in?

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