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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Francis ask forgiveness for during confession?
(a) Francis's hubris for desiring to attend the canonization
(b) the loss of the illuminated blueprint due to Francis's carelessness
(c) Francis's desire to have his illustrated blueprint admired
(d) the discovery of the shelter holding up Leibowitz's sainthood

2. When does Brother Francis believe the Fallout was born?
(a) in the Firey Exculpation
(b) in the Great Fire
(c) in the Flame Deluge
(d) at the end of time

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

4. Why is Brother Francis reluctant to speak to the pilgrim?
(a) His throat is hoarse, and it hurts to talk.
(b) He's not sure if the pilgrim will attack him.
(c) He is not allowed to speak during his fast.
(d) He has taken a vow of silence and can't remember how to talk.

5. What is Brother Kornhoer inventing?
(a) a printing press
(b) a copying machine
(c) a telegraph
(d) an electtric light

6. Who insists that Francis must complete his illuminated blueprint?
(a) Augerra
(b) Jeris
(c) Fingo
(d) Arkos

7. What does Brother Francis at first believe is in the hole?
(a) a scroll
(b) the remains of Blessed Leibowitz
(c) treasure
(d) an animal

8. Whose skull is rumored to be the skull with the gold tooth?
(a) Emily, Leibowitz's wife
(b) Leibowitz
(c) the Fallout monster
(d) Leibowitz's best friend

9. What does Aguerra give Francis?
(a) the original blueprint, blessed by the Pope, to bring back to the Order
(b) a rosary blessed by the Pope
(c) an ancient rifle for protection
(d) gold to ransom the illustrated blueprint

10. What offer does the robber finally make Francis?
(a) The robber will let Francis away with his life if Francis promises not to persue him.
(b) The robber will destroy the illumination if anyone comes after him.
(c) The robber will return the illumination for a chance to meet the Pope.
(d) The robber will return the illumination for two heklos of gold.

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

12. What does Francis admit about the strange pilgrim?
(a) His head glowed as if he might have a halo.
(b) He wrote two unintelligible marks on a rock.
(c) After he left, Francis did discover some rose petals in the dirt.
(d) His words seemed drowned out, perhaps by a heavenly choir.

13. Does Francis believe the strange pilgrim was supernatural?
(a) Yes, he is completely convinced the stranger was actually St. Leibowitz.
(b) No, he believes the pilgrim was an ordinary man but doesn't know what happened to him.
(c) Yes, but he admits the stranger may have been an ordinary man.
(d) No, he realizes the stranger was an ordinary man who tricked him and planned an escape through the mountains.

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

15. Why does the robber take the illumination instead of the original?
(a) The robber is afraid the Church will kill him if he steals the relic.
(b) The robber is afraid of excommunication from New Rome if he steals the relic.
(c) The gold-embellished illumination appears more valuable.
(d) The robber is religious and wants the true relic to go to Rome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cheroki finally absolve Francis?

2. What does Francis say about the rumors surrounding his meeting of the pilgrim?

3. What does the sign Brother Francis finds beneath the rocks in Chapter 1 say?

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

5. What does Flaught conclude about Francis' blueprint?

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