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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. How many people die in the first nine days after Texarkana is bombed?
(a) 2.8 million
(b) 28,000
(c) 280,000
(d) 280 million

2. What is Thon Esser Shon trying to create?
(a) antimatter
(b) living protoplasm
(c) a black hole
(d) a solar battery

3. What does Taddeo give Paulo before he leaves?
(a) a transistor from before the Great Deluge
(b) the officers' sketches of the abbey
(c) a pouch full of gold
(d) a warning about Hannegan

4. What does the APLAC machine do, when it works?
(a) decodes ciphers used to send secret messages
(b) heats up food
(c) translates messages into other languages
(d) provides power to the abbey

5. What does Zerchi have in his office?
(a) the complete writings of Taddeo
(b) the wooden statue of St. Leibowitz
(c) the original Leibowitz blueprint Francis found
(d) Francis's illuminated blueprint

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zerchi respond to news reports about the nuclear crisis?

2. After the war, what does Hannegan do to Apollo?

3. What does Joshua think he hears in the rose garden?

4. Who is Rachel?

5. Where does the Church plan to send a mission to preserve humanity?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the likely reason Taddeo does not arrive on time at the monastery?

2. Why is the APLAC a necessary device?

3. Describe Zerchi's dream about Rachel.

4. Why does Paulo feel like a shoemaker in a village of shoemakers?

5. How does Mad Bear view Taddeo's party?

6. What is Armbruster's attitude toward books and toward Taddeo's studies?

7. What shocks the abbot most about Kornhoer's invention?

8. Why does the idea that mankind is a servant race created by a society of betters appeal to Taddeo?

9. What angers Paulo about the news of the governments' reactions to the nuclear incident?

10. Why can't Cors keep his promise to Zerchi?

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