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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 long are the enemy cities bombed in the myth of the Flame Deluge?
(a) nine days and nights
(b) five days and nights
(c) three days and nights
(d) seven days and nights

2. What does Zerchi do to Cors after the girl and her baby go to the mercy camp?
(a) He hits him.
(b) He forgives him.
(c) He excommunicates him.
(d) He promises to allow him access to the abbey.

3. What does Benjamin say the sign outside his tent means?
(a) "Fortunes Told Inside"
(b) "Tents Mended Here"
(c) "Stormy Weather Ahead"
(d) "Beware of Dogs"

4. What does the Old Jew, Benjamin, do when Paulo comes to return his goat?
(a) He takes the goat back without thanks.
(b) He rewards Paulo for returning the goat.
(c) He makes a bet with Paulo over the goat.
(d) He refuses to take the goat back.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does the Old Jew go by in Chapter 25?

2. What does Paulo tell Kornhoer?

3. What does Mad Bear drink?

4. What does the mythological Blackeneth do?

5. Who enters the dining hall at the end of Chapter 20 to see Taddeo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Taddeo want to alienate Hannegan?

2. Why is Paulo opposed to euthanasia?

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

4. Describe the legend of Leibowitz's death.

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

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

7. Why does Taddeo think Kornhoer would be valuable to him?

8. Why have nuclear weapons been banned?

9. What might lead the reader to believe Benjamin's story about his age?

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

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