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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprises the Cellarer in ‘First Day’?
(a) That William has deigned to come to visit them.
(b) That William and Adso have arrived so early.
(c) That William knows so much about the horse.
(d) That they are there at all.

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

3. What language was the original work in?
(a) German.
(b) Latin.
(c) Italian.
(d) French.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Berengar think he saw in ‘Second Day’?

2. To what order did Brother William belong?

3. How does William know what he tells the Cellarer in ‘First Day’?

4. When was sunset in the Prologue?

5. What does the abbot express pride in?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Adso write his manuscript?

2. What do the monks debate at the first dinner?

3. What is William’s first conclusion about Adso’s death?

4. Where did the narrator find confirmation of the book’s veracity?

5. Why is Jorge so unnerving?

6. How does Salvatore speak?

7. Who does William already know at the abbey in ‘First Day’?

8. How does it look like Venantius died?

9. What is William fascinated by?

10. What does William help the Cellarer to find?

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