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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is stolen from William?
(a) His own book.
(b) His compass.
(c) His light.
(d) His glasses.

4. What is Severinus’s job at the abbey?
(a) Herbalist.
(b) Cellarer.
(c) Cook.
(d) Glazier.

5. How many people can enter the top floor of the Aedificium?
(a) Two.
(b) None.
(c) Anyone can enter.
(d) One.

6. What is William’s nationality?
(a) Italian.
(b) German.
(c) British.
(d) French.

7. When is the narrator now writing, according to the Preface?
(a) 1932
(b) 1980
(c) 1968
(d) 1884

8. Who used to be a Dolcian?
(a) The Cellarer.
(b) The abbot.
(c) Adso.
(d) William.

9. What will the monks debate in the discussions to take place?
(a) Who should be the main power.
(b) Where the Pope should live.
(c) Which sects to exterminate.
(d) The role of poverty in the church.

10. Where does William want to go that night in ‘Second Day’?
(a) To the scriptorium.
(b) To bed.
(c) To the library.
(d) To the baths.

11. When does Matins take place?
(a) Between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m.
(b) Before 7 p.m.
(c) Around 6 p.m.
(d) At 4:30 p.m.

12. Who is the first person from the monks that the men meet in ‘First Day’?
(a) Salvatore.
(b) The abbot.
(c) Ubartino.
(d) The Cellarer.

13. Whom did Adso accompany on his travels?
(a) Ubartino.
(b) Brother William of Baskerville.
(c) The abbot.
(d) His father.

14. When did the monks go to bed?
(a) Between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m.
(b) Around 4:30 p.m.
(c) Around 6 p.m.
(d) Before 7 p.m.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was sunset in the Prologue?

2. What is missing from Venantius’s desk in ‘Second Day’?

3. When is Adso writing this book?

4. What position has William held before?

5. What does Benno imply about Berengar?

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