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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 they are there at all.
(b) That William and Adso have arrived so early.
(c) That William has deigned to come to visit them.
(d) That William knows so much about the horse.

2. Where does Benno recommend William search in ‘Second Day’?
(a) The scriptorium.
(b) His own cell.
(c) The library.
(d) Salvatore’s cell.

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

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

5. What fascinated William?
(a) Horses.
(b) Women.
(c) Writing books.
(d) Machines.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people can enter the top floor of the Aedificium?

2. What is Severinus’s job at the abbey?

3. Why has William come to the monastery?

4. To what order did Brother William belong?

5. Where is the corpse found in ‘Second Day’?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Benno reveal about Adelmo?

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

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

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

5. What does William help the Cellarer to find?

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

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

8. How does Salvatore speak?

9. Why is Jorge so unnerving?

10. How did Venantius die?

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