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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can’t William save the person he tries to in ‘Seventh Day’?
(a) He kills himself.
(b) He has disappeared.
(c) He is all right.
(d) He has already suffocated.

2. Who arrives on Day Four?
(a) The Franciscan group of monks.
(b) The Minorites and the Pope’s men.
(c) The Dominican group of monks.
(d) The heretics.

3. What does the abbot tell William in ‘Sixth Day’?
(a) To stop bothering him.
(b) To leave immediately.
(c) To keep trying.
(d) To cease his investigations.

4. What does Adso draw in ‘Third Day’?
(a) A map of the scriptorium.
(b) A map of the library.
(c) A map of the abbey.
(d) A map of the exits.

5. Who will keep the library running in ‘Sixth Day’?
(a) Benno.
(b) William.
(c) Nobody.
(d) The abbot.

6. What catches fire after the library?
(a) The church.
(b) The garden.
(c) The cells.
(d) The laboratory.

7. How are the rooms of the library titled?
(a) By author.
(b) By various regions.
(c) By title.
(d) By scripture.

8. Who examines Berengar’s body with William?
(a) Severinus.
(b) Nobody.
(c) Adso.
(d) The abot.

9. What happens to the strange book in ‘Seventh Day’?
(a) Jorge eats it.
(b) Aso takes it.
(c) It burns up.
(d) It falls out the window.

10. What does the large group debate as a whole in ‘Fifth Day’?
(a) Jesus's poverty.
(b) Jesus's laughter.
(c) Heretics.
(d) Their own faith.

11. In ‘Sixth Day,’ when does the abbot wish William and Adso to leave?
(a) They do not have to leave.
(b) Immediately.
(c) The following morning.
(d) Whenever they wish.

12. What did Salvatore do in the name of the Lord?
(a) Killed Berengar.
(b) Came to the lobby.
(c) Kill numerous people.
(d) Went on the Crusades.

13. What story does William change Adso’s conception of in ‘Third Day’?
(a) The crucifixion.
(b) St. Francis and the birds.
(c) Mary Magdalene.
(d) The loaves and fishes.

14. What/who did Severinus find in his laboratory?
(a) An usual potion.
(b) A strange book.
(c) Adso.
(d) William.

15. How does William respond to the fire?
(a) He abandons Adso.
(b) He runs away.
(c) He gets his and Adso’s things ready to go.
(d) He tries to put it out.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the monks, who was Dolcino?

2. Who is Adso supposed to follow in ‘Fifth Day’?

3. What was the false pattern William followed?

4. Who does William try to save in ‘Seventh Day’?

5. What does Benno reveal about the book in ‘Sixth Day’?

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