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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. How does William know what he tells the Cellarer in ‘First Day’?
(a) Someone has told him.
(b) He is guessing at random.
(c) Through informed reasoning.
(d) He is psychic.

2. What does Berengar think he saw in ‘Second Day’?
(a) Benno’s ghost.
(b) Adelmo's ghost.
(c) Benno alive.
(d) Adelmo alive.

3. What 18th Century figure translated Adso’s work?
(a) Brother William.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) An anonymous source.
(d) The Abbé Vallet.

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

5. To which monastery did Adso belong?
(a) The Monastery of Melk.
(b) The Monastery of Cluny.
(c) The Monastery of Munich.
(d) The Monastery of Vallé.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fascinated William?

2. In ‘Second Day,’ where does William tell the abbot they were?

3. In what year do the events of the book take place?

4. What will the monks debate in the discussions to take place?

5. What area of the abbey is forbidden to William?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does William help the Cellarer to find?

2. What two things disappear from Venantius’s desk in ‘Second Day’?

3. How did the narrator originally lose his copy of the book?

4. What must the men pass through to reach the library at night?

5. What is William’s mission at the abbey?

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

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

8. Who is the Pope at the time of the events in the novel?

9. What does Benno reveal about Adelmo?

10. Who, in ‘Second Day,’ reveals that the library is a labyrinth?

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