The Name of the Rose Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Name of the Rose Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the bulk of the monastery called?
(a) The Aedificium.
(b) The hall.
(c) The labyrinth.
(d) The library.

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

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

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

5. In what form is the monastery constructed?
(a) A rectangle.
(b) A triangle.
(c) A square.
(d) An octogon.

6. What kind of cipher is written on the page William and Adso find in the library?
(a) Morse code.
(b) A code in Arabic.
(c) Something completely incomprehensible.
(d) An astrological cipher.

7. Where does William want to go that night in ‘Second Day’?
(a) To bed.
(b) To the baths.
(c) To the scriptorium.
(d) To the library.

8. Where is the corpse found in ‘Second Day’?
(a) In the vat of pig's blood.
(b) In the scriptorium.
(c) In the library.
(d) In bed.

9. What is the first monk Adso and William meet looking for?
(a) The abbot.
(b) Salvatore.
(c) A mule.
(d) A horse.

10. Where does Benno recommend William search in ‘Second Day’?
(a) Salvatore’s cell.
(b) His own cell.
(c) The library.
(d) The scriptorium.

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

12. What will the monks debate in the discussions to take place?
(a) Which sects to exterminate.
(b) The role of poverty in the church.
(c) Where the Pope should live.
(d) Who should be the main power.

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

14. What does the abbot express pride in?
(a) His own health.
(b) The abbey's riches.
(c) The abbey’s piousness.
(d) The abbey's history.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do William and Adso go to investigate in ‘Second Day’?

2. Where is Adso from originally?

3. Who is Ubertino obsessed with?

4. What fascinated William?

5. What do Jorge and William debate in ‘Second Day’?

(see the answer keys)

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