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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 secret society does Casaubon decide to add to the list he presents to Aglie?
(a) Tres.
(b) Rosicrucians.
(c) Freemasons.
(d) Santerians.

2. According to the Plan, where was Napoleon initiated into the Templars?
(a) Spain.
(b) Egypt.
(c) France.
(d) Bulgaria.

3. Why does the mysterious caller ask Belbo to go to Paris?
(a) To give a lecture at the Conservatoire.
(b) To visit the dying Diotallevi.
(c) To divulge the secret map.
(d) To create a new secret society.

4. Casaubon realizes that the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers was built on whose property?
(a) John Dee's.
(b) Francis Bacon's.
(c) King Phillip's.
(d) Queen Elizabeth's.

5. Why does Casaubon choose to enter seemingly meaningless information into Abulafia?
(a) To see if the computer can differentiate between significant and meaningless data.
(b) To test the theory that all information is truly interconnected.
(c) To see if the computer's calculations are accurate.
(d) To throw pursuers off their trail.

Short Answer Questions

1. It becomes clear in Chapter 101 that Diotallevi is dying from what?

2. What object was Loyola seeking?

3. Who is Kelly?

4. Salon tells Casaubon that the Nazis are allied with whom?

5. What item is set up by the cloaked individuals in the Conservatoire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Belbo say about the believability of the Plan, in Chapter 100?

2. What deduction do Casaubon and his group make about the Pendulum's purpose, in Chapter 99?

3. What happens to Casaubon at the end of the novel?

4. According to Casaubon's theory about the Jesuits, who were the Rosicrucians and the Scottish Rite Freemasons?

5. What happens to Diotallevi in Chapter 101?

6. What does Aglie tell Casaubon's group about the Freemasons?

7. What does the group of cloaked individuals want with Belbo?

8. Why does Casaubon enter randomly chosen lines of text, which have nothing to do with the occult, into the computer?

9. According to Casaubon's group, what were some of the Jesuits' accomplishments?

10. What happens to Belbo after receiving the last piece of the Plan from Salon?

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