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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do William and Adso look for in Severinus’s chambers?
(a) The strange book.
(b) The poison.
(c) The murderer.
(d) Any sign of something strange.

2. Why can’t William save the person he tries to in ‘Seventh Day’?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) He has already suffocated.
(c) He is all right.
(d) He has disappeared.

3. Why does a girl in ‘Third Day’ prostitute herself?
(a) She doesn't.
(b) For money.
(c) For fun.
(d) For food.

4. What metaphor does William use in ‘Third Day’ to describe heresy?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The forest.
(c) A tree.
(d) A river.

5. Who examines Berengar’s body with William?
(a) Severinus.
(b) The abot.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Adso.

6. What is Adso tormented by in ‘Fourth Day’?
(a) Love.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Fatigue.

7. What is notable about Malachi’s body?
(a) His tongue is black.
(b) His fingers are black.
(c) He is bloated.
(d) He is short.

8. Where is the book when William and Adso go back in ‘Fifth Day’?
(a) On the bookshelf.
(b) It has disappeared.
(c) In William's habit.
(d) On Severinus’s body.

9. What catches fire after the library?
(a) The garden.
(b) The laboratory.
(c) The church.
(d) The cells.

10. Why is Adso frustrated intellectually in ‘Fourth Day’?
(a) Because he wants to leave.
(b) Because Venantius’s parchment still makes no sense.
(c) Because William does not understand him.
(d) Because he cannot understand Salvatore.

11. What/who did Severinus find in his laboratory?
(a) Adso.
(b) A strange book.
(c) An usual potion.
(d) William.

12. Who will keep the library running in ‘Sixth Day’?
(a) Benno.
(b) Nobody.
(c) The abbot.
(d) William.

13. What does Malachi do during the service in ‘Sixth Day’?
(a) Laughs aloud.
(b) Gives a sermon.
(c) Sways and collapses.
(d) Participates fully.

14. Why did Jorge want to protect the book from others?
(a) Because of the poison.
(b) He didn't.
(c) Because of the demon.
(d) Because of the ideas within it.

15. What does William think about Adso’s sin?
(a) That it is understandable and maybe even useful.
(b) That he needs to do penance for it.
(c) That he has damned his sole.
(d) That he doesn't care.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jorge allow William to do in ‘Seventh Day’?

2. From whom does Adso learn the story of Dolcino?

3. What does Jorge do to the book in ‘Seventh Day’?

4. What machine does William speak of for finding their way in ‘Third Day’?

5. Why did Jorge kill the most recent person in ‘Seventh Day’?

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