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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 library.
(b) The gardens.
(c) The scriptorium.
(d) The church.

2. Where do William and Adso go to investigate in ‘Second Day’?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The labratory.
(c) The library.
(d) The scriptorium.

3. Who used to be a Dolcian?
(a) Adso.
(b) The abbot.
(c) William.
(d) The Cellarer.

4. What is the form of the library?
(a) A single room.
(b) A labyrinth.
(c) A spiral.
(d) A tunnel.

5. What position has William held before?
(a) Bishop.
(b) Abbot.
(c) Cardinal.
(d) Inquisitor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of cipher is written on the page William and Adso find in the library?

2. Who is a mystery to Adso?

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

4. What 18th Century figure translated Adso’s work?

5. What is the first monk Adso and William meet looking for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Benno reveal about Adelmo?

4. Why is Jorge so unnerving?

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

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

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

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

9. How does it look like Venantius died?

10. What is William fascinated by?

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