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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Louis see as his allies?
(a) The Franciscans.
(b) The Benedictines.
(c) The Dominicans.
(d) Nobody.

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

3. In what year do the events of the book take place?
(a) 1323
(b) 1387
(c) 1314
(d) 1327

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

5. Where was the apostolic seat?
(a) The Vatican.
(b) Rome.
(c) Tuscany.
(d) Avignon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Adso from originally?

2. What 18th Century figure translated Adso’s work?

3. Whom did William consider his master?

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

5. What area of the abbey is forbidden to William?

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