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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When is Adso writing this book?
(a) Directly following William’s death.
(b) At the end of his life.
(c) In the mid-1350s.
(d) Immediately after the events.

2. Who is Ubertino obsessed with?
(a) The virgin Mary.
(b) Clare of Montefalco.
(c) Mary Magdalene.
(d) William.

3. In what year do the events of the book take place?
(a) 1387
(b) 1314
(c) 1323
(d) 1327

4. To which monastery did Adso belong?
(a) The Monastery of Cluny.
(b) The Monastery of Melk.
(c) The Monastery of Munich.
(d) The Monastery of Vallé.

5. What surprises the Cellarer in ‘First Day’?
(a) That they are there at all.
(b) That William has deigned to come to visit them.
(c) That William knows so much about the horse.
(d) That William and Adso have arrived so early.

6. Who lives at the apostolic seat?
(a) The Pope.
(b) The monks.
(c) The Emperor.
(d) All the bishops.

7. Who did Louis see as his allies?
(a) Nobody.
(b) The Benedictines.
(c) The Franciscans.
(d) The Dominicans.

8. What 18th Century figure translated Adso’s work?
(a) The Abbé Vallet.
(b) An anonymous source.
(c) Brother William.
(d) Victor Hugo.

9. What book cited Adso’s manuscript?
(a) Monks of the Fourteenth Century.
(b) On the Use of Mirrors in the Game of Chess.
(c) Mirror Game: Chess and the World.
(d) On Labyrinths and Libraries.

10. Where do William and Adso go to investigate in ‘Second Day’?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The scriptorium.
(c) The labratory.
(d) The library.

11. What fascinated William?
(a) Horses.
(b) Machines.
(c) Writing books.
(d) Women.

12. In ‘Second Day,’ where does William tell the abbot they were?
(a) Following some signs.
(b) In the library.
(c) In the scriptorium.
(d) Pursing a trail.

13. Why does Adso hallucinate in the library?
(a) Because of the lamp that is left out.
(b) He has fallen asleep.
(c) William makes him hallucinate.
(d) From the herbs he has taken.

14. What is the form of the library?
(a) A spiral.
(b) A single room.
(c) A labyrinth.
(d) A tunnel.

15. What does the abbot express pride in?
(a) The abbey's history.
(b) The abbey’s piousness.
(c) His own health.
(d) The abbey's riches.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time this book was written, who was the Pope?

2. What do Jorge and William debate in ‘Second Day’?

3. What do the monks not do between matins and lauds?

4. Where is the corpse found in ‘Second Day’?

5. What is the bulk of the monastery called?

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