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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 area of the abbey is forbidden to William?
(a) The scriptorium.
(b) The gardens.
(c) The church.
(d) The library.

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

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

4. In the Preface, what language is the current narrator writing in?
(a) Latin.
(b) Italian.
(c) French.
(d) German.

5. At that time this book was written, who was the Emperor?
(a) John.
(b) Charles.
(c) Bernard.
(d) Louis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book cited Adso’s manuscript?

2. Who provides the key to entering the library in ‘Second Day’?

3. Who is the first person from the monks that the men meet in ‘First Day’?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Adso allowed to sit away from the novices in ‘First Day’?

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

4. Where did Adso meet William?

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

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

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

8. When does Adso write his manuscript?

9. How does Adso feel about ‘modern’ life?

10. Who originally translated the book?

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