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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paulo have in his office?
(a) Fingo's carving of St. Leibowitz
(b) the original Leibowitz blueprint relic
(c) five pages of indecipherable text
(d) Francis's illuminated blueprint

2. How does Francis respond to being hit by the Abbot?
(a) He remains silent and submits to his punishment.
(b) He groans and asks for forgiveness.
(c) He begs the Abbot to stop.
(d) He says, "Deo gratias!"

3. Who does the Pope ask to come to New Rome?
(a) Jeris
(b) Arkos
(c) Flaught
(d) Francis

4. How does Francis initially think blueprints were produced?
(a) by using a chemical process to impress white lines on blue paper
(b) by drawing in special white ink over blue-painted paper
(c) by using a chemical process to impress blue ink around white lines
(d) by filling in blue ink around the white lines

5. What term for the unlearned do the people of the Simplification embrace as a complimentary term?
(a) ignoramous
(b) simpleton
(c) dunce
(d) bonehead

6. What is the purpose of Francis' black eye patch?
(a) to show that he has one eye always trained on heaven
(b) to suggest to the superstitious that he has the evil eye
(c) to stop his wandering eye from looking off the path
(d) to keep the dust from irritating his infected eye

7. With what does the Abbot hit Francis?
(a) a hickory ruler
(b) his open hand
(c) an ancient tome
(d) a long staff

8. What does the pilgrim have to eat?
(a) meat and cheese
(b) a biscuit and cheese
(c) milk and bread
(d) a dry crust

9. What is Leibowitz's goal in the priesthood?
(a) to preserve human history
(b) to build up his own glory for his future sainthood
(c) to put the world under the control of the church
(d) to rebuild an atom bomb

10. Which of the following does Flaught NOT use as an argument against Francis' testimony?
(a) Francis might have misread the word Leibowitz on the blueprint.
(b) Francis' finds might be forged.
(c) Francis might be suffering from mental illness.
(d) Francis might be mistaken that the "Em" referrs to Emily Leibowitz.

11. Why does Brother Francis only hope to find paper artifacts in the fallout shelter?
(a) Brother Francis believes he can use carbon dating on paper artifacts to date the site.
(b) Paper artifacts are most valuable because most paper has decayed.
(c) Brother Francis confuses all paper for the paper money used before the catastrophe.
(d) Excavating for anything but paper documents has been ruled too dangerous.

12. What would we term Taddeo's field of study today?
(a) anthropology
(b) biology
(c) chemistry
(d) physics

13. Where does the unwelcome guest claim to have gotten the Old Jew's goat?
(a) in a game of mumbly-peg
(b) from the slaughterhouse
(c) in a game of poker
(d) wandering aimlessly on the moor

14. What is Brother Francis building?
(a) a shelter
(b) an altar
(c) a fire pit
(d) a statue

15. Why are the monks unwelcoming toward Monsignor Flaught?
(a) Flaught is a disbeliever who tries to force his atheism on the monks.
(b) Flaught has an eerie aura of the devil about him.
(c) Flaught's job is to argue against the canonization of Leibowitz.
(d) Flaught is an unpreposessing person whom the monks dislike on sight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Leibowitz a saint at the beginning of the novel?

2. What is Francis' pet project as a copyist?

3. Where did Kornhoer get the information to help him create his invention?

4. Whose skull is rumored to be the skull with the gold tooth?

5. Cheroki's reaction to Francis' confession is ____________.

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