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The Name of the Rose Trivia Quiz

Here are some questions about the 1986 movie, based on Umberto Eco's novel, and starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater.

A multiple-choice quiz by Dr.Rome. Estimated time: 5 mins.

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Dr.Rome

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5 mins

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Multiple Choice

Quiz #
71,144

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. Why do William of Baskerville and his novice Adso of Melk come to the remote Benedictine monastery in northern Italy at the end of the year 1327? Hint

To take shelter from a snowstorm

To study in the abbey's famed library

To ask for asylum from the Holy Inquisition

To partake in a religious debate

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the first thing that William deduces after he and Adso have entered the abbey's battlements? Hint

The location of the latrines

The location of the library

The recent death of one of the monks

That the monks are collecting more than just tithes

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Question 3 of 10

3. How did the young and beautiful manuscript illuminator Adelmo of Otranto die? Hint

He committed suicide

He was thrown out of a window

He was killed by the Devil

He fell accidentally from a tower

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which great Franciscan spiritual leader at the abbey warns William and Adso to leave because of the Devil's presence? Hint

Cuthbert of Winchester

Jerome of Kaffa

Michele da Cesena

Ubertino da Casale

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Question 5 of 10

5. What does the hunchback Salvatore's cry of 'Penitenziagite' suggest to William about him? Hint

That he was once a heretic

That he wishes to confess something

That he cannot speak Latin well

That he is innocent of any wrongdoing

6. Whom does Adso, quoting from the biblical Song of Songs, describe as a creature 'that rose like the dawn, was bewitching as the moon, radiant as the sun, terrible as an army poised for battle'? Hint

The Devil

The herbalist Severinus

The abbot

A peasant girl

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Question 7 of 10

7. Where did the erudite Greek translator Venantius die? Hint

In a vat of pigs' blood

In the library

In a bathtub

In the scriptorium

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which of the following did William not detect on the piece of parchment he found on Venantius's desk? Hint

A quotation from Aristotle

A smudge of blue paint

A spot of black poison

A zodiacal code written with lemon juice

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who was ultimately responsible for the deaths of Venantius, the moon-faced assistant librarian Berengar, and the librarian Malachia, as well as for the destruction of the abbey library, all because of his hatred of laughter? Hint

Salvatore

Jorge de Burgos

Remigio da Varagine

The person is never named

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Question 10 of 10

10. Whom does the abbot describe as 'well versed in the wiles of the Evil One'? Hint

William of Baskerville

The Inquisitor Bernardo Gui

The (then) anonymous murderer

St. Thomas Aquinas

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Why do William of Baskerville and his novice Adso of Melk come to the remote Benedictine monastery in northern Italy at the end of the year 1327?

Answer: To partake in a religious debate

The abbey is to be the location of a debate between papal delegates and Franciscans concerning poverty in the Church.

2. What is the first thing that William deduces after he and Adso have entered the abbey's battlements?

Answer: The location of the latrines

William is able to tell Adso where the latrines are after having seen a man rushing to the place and then soon after coming out of it looking relieved. William next deduces that one of the monks has recently died after observing a newly-made grave in the cemetery.

3. How did the young and beautiful manuscript illuminator Adelmo of Otranto die?

Answer: He committed suicide

Ashamed of having submitted to the 'unnatural caresses' of Berengar in exchange for information on the location of a copy of the second book of Aristotle's Poetics, Adelmo took his own life by jumping from a tower.

4. Which great Franciscan spiritual leader at the abbey warns William and Adso to leave because of the Devil's presence?

Answer: Ubertino da Casale

This is one of the historical portrayals in the movie.

5. What does the hunchback Salvatore's cry of 'Penitenziagite' suggest to William about him?

Answer: That he was once a heretic

Adso suspects that Salvatore may be responsible for the deaths in the abbey, but William doubts it even though he knows that Salvatore was once a Dolcinite.

Answer: A peasant girl

This line (Song of Songs 6:10) is spoken by the narrator (Adso as an old man) of the girl without a name of whom he had carnal knowledge.

7. Where did the erudite Greek translator Venantius die?

Answer: In the scriptorium

Venantius died of poisoning in the scriptorium and Berengar dragged his body to a vat of pigs' blood outside to divert suspicion.

8. Which of the following did William not detect on the piece of parchment he found on Venantius's desk?

Answer: A spot of black poison

The paint had been left by Adelmo, the code by Berengar for Adelmo, and the quotation from Aristotle (including 'Use vulgar people ... Take pleasure from their defects') by Venantius before he died. The poison was rather in a manuscript of the second book of Aristotle's Poetics.

Answer: Jorge de Burgos

The 'venerable' Jorge believed that laughter turned people away from God, and thus he poisoned the corners of a copy of the second book of Aristotle's Poetics (on comedy) to kill any who read it. He burned the book in the end to prevent William from having it, and in the process burned himself to death and burned down the library as well.

10. Whom does the abbot describe as 'well versed in the wiles of the Evil One'?

Answer: The Inquisitor Bernardo Gui

Bernardo Gui, having come to the abbey with the papal delegation, condemns Remigio, Salvatore, and the peasant girl to be burned at the stake for witchcraft and the murders in the abbey. Of the three, only the girl is saved (although in the book, even she dies).

Source: Author Dr.Rome

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