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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about Berengar’s body when it is examined?
(a) His fingers are black.
(b) He has been beheaded.
(c) His tongue is black.
(d) His fingers have been amputated.

2. Who arrives on Day Four?
(a) The Minorites and the Pope’s men.
(b) The Franciscan group of monks.
(c) The Dominican group of monks.
(d) The heretics.

3. In ‘Fourth Day,’ what is Adso disappointed to learn is not real?
(a) Manticores.
(b) The unicorn.
(c) Magic.
(d) Fairies.

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

5. What does Adso do in the kitchen in ‘Third Day’?
(a) He is intimate with a girl.
(b) He waits for William.
(c) He hides some food.
(d) He pursues the thief.

6. How is it known how Berengar died?
(a) From his swollen face.
(b) They are guessing.
(c) From the evidence in his cell.
(d) From his fingers.

7. What almost happens to William and Adso in ‘Seventh Day’?
(a) They are nearly trapped in the room.
(b) They nearly fall down the stairs.
(c) They almost die.
(d) They almost kill each other.

8. What makes the book being looked for strange?
(a) It is written in several different languages.
(b) It is invisible.
(c) It is in Greek.
(d) It is in Arabic.

9. For whom had the woman come the previous night in ‘Fourth Day’?
(a) The abbot.
(b) Adso.
(c) Salvatore.
(d) The Cellarer.

10. Why is it difficult to follow Jorge in ‘Seventh Day’?
(a) He moves so quickly.
(b) He is dangerous.
(c) He has extinguished the light.
(d) He makes a lot of noise.

11. What does the choir chant in ‘Sixth Day’?
(a) The Sederunt.
(b) Dies irae.
(c) Hail Mary.
(d) Ave Maria.

12. Who do the men find in the vault in ‘Seventh Day’?
(a) The abbot.
(b) Benno.
(c) Jorge.
(d) Ubertino.

13. What distinction does Adso struggle with in ‘Seventh Day’?
(a) Dominicans and Franciscans.
(b) Heretics and Believers.
(c) Jorge and William.
(d) Free will of God and chaos.

14. Who feeds William and Adso cheese in batter?
(a) Salvatore.
(b) The abbot.
(c) The Cellarer.
(d) They make it themselves.

15. What do William and Adso try to deduce in ‘Sixth Day’?
(a) The succession of Cellarers.
(b) The succession of abbots.
(c) The succession of herbalists.
(d) The succession of librarians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who examines Berengar’s body with William?

2. What is Adso’s love accused of?

3. What is Benno’s new position?

4. To which group did the Cellarer belong?

5. Why did Jorge want to protect the book from others?

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