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  So what actually IS The Name of the Rose (i.e., the name of the girl) in Umberto Eco's novel of that title? see if you know the answer
Answered: 252 times
Correct: 196 times (56.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 56 times (16.1%)
Skipped: 96 times (27.6%)
  The shape of the library building in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is based on that of a labyrinth depicted in the cathedral of ...

(Hint: Assuming that both William of Baskerville and Adso von Melk traveled to the Italian abbey where the novel's action takes place coming straight from their respective home countries, William but NOT Adso might have visited this cathedral on the way without making too much of a detour.) 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 234 times
Correct: 174 times (56.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 60 times (19.5%)
Skipped: 74 times (24.0%)
  In Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, in what light do the monks interpret the deaths of their brethren? see if you know the answer
Answered: 225 times
Correct: 156 times (44.1%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 69 times (19.5%)
Skipped: 129 times (36.4%)
  What is the theological issue the monks have come together to debate in a remote Italian abbey in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose? see if you know the answer
Answered: 252 times
Correct: 106 times (29.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 146 times (40.9%)
Skipped: 105 times (29.4%)
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To what monastic order do William of Baskerville and Adso von Melk belong? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 94 times
Correct: 17 times (15.2%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 77 times (68.8%)
Skipped: 18 times (16.1%)
  Umberto Eco once said that he had started to write The Name of the Rose because ... see if you know the answer
Answered: 278 times
Correct: 59 times (15.8%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 219 times (58.6%)
Skipped: 96 times (25.7%)
  Umberto Eco is a best-selling author and a professor of ... see if you know the answer
Answered: 169 times
Correct: 113 times (53.3%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 56 times (26.4%)
Skipped: 43 times (20.3%)
  Umberto Eco once described semiotics as the discipline studying ... see if you know the answer
Answered: 126 times
Correct: 50 times (25.5%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 76 times (38.8%)
Skipped: 70 times (35.7%)
  In Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose, what was the name of the monk whose mysterious death started the whole story? see if you know the answer
Answered: 243 times
Correct: 142 times (35.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 101 times (25.6%)
Skipped: 152 times (38.5%)
  What connects Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco and The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1779 times
Correct: 942 times (46.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 837 times (40.9%)
Skipped: 267 times (13.0%)
  In Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which character narrates the action? see if you know the answer
Answered: 350 times
Correct: 230 times (42.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 120 times (22.2%)
Skipped: 190 times (35.2%)
  Who said that "great geniuses have the shortest biographies?" see if you know the answer
Answered: 202 times
Correct: 72 times (24.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 130 times (45.0%)
Skipped: 87 times (30.1%)
  Umberto Eco has taught at what university for many years?

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Answered: 1594 times
Correct: 911 times (40.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 683 times (30.5%)
Skipped: 645 times (28.8%)
  In Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, what is the finis africae? see if you know the answer
Answered: 262 times
Correct: 112 times (25.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 150 times (34.4%)
Skipped: 174 times (39.9%)
  In Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, what manuscript lies at the heart of the mystery? see if you know the answer
Answered: 283 times
Correct: 133 times (30.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 150 times (34.1%)
Skipped: 157 times (35.7%)
  In Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, what physical impairment did Jorge suffer from? see if you know the answer
Answered: 267 times
Correct: 165 times (38.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 102 times (24.0%)
Skipped: 158 times (37.2%)
  Who wrote a novel entitled Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages? see if you know the answer
Answered: 65 times
Correct: 42 times (39.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 23 times (21.7%)
Skipped: 41 times (38.7%)
  What is the backdrop for Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose? see if you know the answer
Answered: 5106 times
Correct: 2515 times (32.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 2591 times (33.8%)
Skipped: 2554 times (33.3%)
  Of whom is John Updike writing here?

"What are we to make of him? The economy of his prose, the tact of his imagery, the courage of his thought are there to be admired and emulated. In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterton, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, he has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 60 times
Correct: 26 times (25.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 34 times (33.7%)
Skipped: 41 times (40.6%)
  Fill in the missing name in this statement of Umberto Eco:

"Though so different in style, two writers have offered us an image for the next millenium: James Joyce and ____________. The first designed with words what the second designed with ideas: the original, the one and only World Wide Web. The Real Thing. The rest will remain simply virtual." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 61 times
Correct: 23 times (25.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 38 times (42.7%)
Skipped: 28 times (31.5%)

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