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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When are Adso and William traveling in ‘First Day’?
(a) February.
(b) December.
(c) January.
(d) November.
2. How does William know what he tells the Cellarer in ‘First Day’?
(a) Someone has told him.
(b) He is psychic.
(c) Through informed reasoning.
(d) He is guessing at random.
3. When is Adso writing this book?
(a) Immediately after the events.
(b) In the mid-1350s.
(c) Directly following William’s death.
(d) At the end of his life.
4. What is William’s nationality?
(a) British.
(b) Italian.
(c) German.
(d) French.
5. Where was the apostolic seat?
(a) The Vatican.
(b) Avignon.
(c) Tuscany.
(d) Rome.
6. Where does William want to go that night in ‘Second Day’?
(a) To the scriptorium.
(b) To the baths.
(c) To the library.
(d) To bed.
7. What does the abbot express pride in?
(a) The abbey's history.
(b) His own health.
(c) The abbey's riches.
(d) The abbey’s piousness.
8. What area of the abbey is forbidden to William?
(a) The scriptorium.
(b) The gardens.
(c) The church.
(d) The library.
9. What do Jorge and William debate in ‘Second Day’?
(a) The role of the church.
(b) The role of laughter in religion.
(c) Which sect has the most heretics.
(d) The purpose of poverty in religion.
10. What surprises the Cellarer in ‘First Day’?
(a) That William and Adso have arrived so early.
(b) That William has deigned to come to visit them.
(c) That they are there at all.
(d) That William knows so much about the horse.
11. Who did Louis see as his allies?
(a) The Benedictines.
(b) Nobody.
(c) The Franciscans.
(d) The Dominicans.
12. Who is the first person from the monks that the men meet in ‘First Day’?
(a) Ubartino.
(b) Salvatore.
(c) The Cellarer.
(d) The abbot.
13. When does Compline take place?
(a) Between 2:30 and 3:30a.m.
(b) Before 7 p.m.
(c) At 4:30 p.m.
(d) Around 6 p.m.
14. What fascinated William?
(a) Writing books.
(b) Horses.
(c) Machines.
(d) Women.
15. When did the monks go to bed?
(a) Before 7 p.m.
(b) Around 4:30 p.m.
(c) Around 6 p.m.
(d) Between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m.
Short Answer Questions
1. At that time this book was written, who was the Emperor?
2. What is Severinus’s job at the abbey?
3. Where does Benno recommend William search in ‘Second Day’?
4. In the Preface, what language is the current narrator writing in?
5. Who used to be a Dolcian?
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