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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Salvatore speak?
(a) In Latin.
(b) In Italian.
(c) In a mixture of different languages.
(d) He is mute.

2. What does Berengar think he saw in ‘Second Day’?
(a) Adelmo alive.
(b) Adelmo's ghost.
(c) Benno alive.
(d) Benno’s ghost.

3. Why does Adso hallucinate in the library?
(a) William makes him hallucinate.
(b) From the herbs he has taken.
(c) Because of the lamp that is left out.
(d) He has fallen asleep.

4. How does William know what he tells the Cellarer in ‘First Day’?
(a) He is psychic.
(b) Someone has told him.
(c) Through informed reasoning.
(d) He is guessing at random.

5. In ‘Second Day,’ where does William tell the abbot they were?
(a) Pursing a trail.
(b) In the scriptorium.
(c) Following some signs.
(d) In the library.

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

7. To which monastery did Adso belong?
(a) The Monastery of Munich.
(b) The Monastery of Cluny.
(c) The Monastery of Vallé.
(d) The Monastery of Melk.

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

9. What is William’s nationality?
(a) British.
(b) Italian.
(c) German.
(d) French.

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

11. Who is Abo?
(a) Salvatore.
(b) A random monk.
(c) The abbot.
(d) The cellarer.

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

13. Who lives at the apostolic seat?
(a) The Emperor.
(b) The monks.
(c) The Pope.
(d) All the bishops.

14. Whom did William consider his master?
(a) The Emperor.
(b) Roger Bacon.
(c) Francis Bacon.
(d) The Pope.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the narrator now writing, according to the Preface?

2. Who did Louis see as his allies?

3. Who is the first person from the monks that the men meet in ‘First Day’?

4. What will the monks debate in the discussions to take place?

5. When was sunset in the Prologue?

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