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Sean McCarthy
Honors English 10
Mrs. Melanie Dietrich
12/21/16

Your name: Sean McCarthy

Date: 12/21/16
Title of Book: The DaVinci Code
Author: Dan Brown
Illustrator: N/A
Type of Book (genre): Fiction
Sub-Genre of Book: Realistic Fiction
Number of Pages in the book: 597
Copyright Date: 2003
Publisher: Anchor Books

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Write and define five interesting words from the book. Include the page # for each word.
(10 points)
1.

Sodomy (210) : Sexual intercourse, with an unmarried partner, which was and is

2.
3.
4.
5.

frowned upon and considered a mortal sin but the catholic church.
Subvert (222) : To undermine something, or lower its authoritative status.
Compartmentalized (223) : To divide something into pieces or categories.
Expediency (227) :The quality of being practical despite being improper or immoral
Sanctity (343) : Holiness; The state of something being holy or saintly.

Answer the following questions about your book: (10 points)

1. Why did you choose this book?
a. My cousin read this book and thought it was interesting, and so I decided to read
the book myself.
2. Setting (Where and when does the story take place?)
a. The novel The DaVinci Code starts off in a museum in France, near the US
Embassy in France. The main characters bounce all around the country and visit
Museums and mansions and banks while they are trying to evade police. Towards
the end of the book, the main characters fly to England to search for the Grail.
This story also takes place in the present day.
3. Who are the main characters?
a. The main protagonist is a Harvard professor of iconography, Robert Langdon who
was visiting France for a seminar. Along the way he pairs up with a French
Cryptographer, named Sophie Neveu, to search for the Holy Grail. While the pair
search for the Holy Grail, the pair seek refuge in the home of an old scholar who
is a Grail Enthusiast as well, and they leave for England to search for the grail.

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4. Who is your favorite character? Why?

a. My favorite character from the novel, is Robert Langdon, for numerous reasons.
First of all, I like his dry sense of humor, as it adds some comic relief to the book.
I think the small jokes he makes in his actual seminars are entertaining and make
the book much easier to read. I also like Langdons ability with logical puzzles
and how he can generally figure out the poems and anagrams, faster than the
average person.
5. Which part of the book did you like the best? Explain why.
a. My favorite part of the book, was the plot twist towards the end, when the main
antagonist The Teacher is revealed to actually be Leigh Teabing, after he
assassinates his manservant Remi, and confronts Langdon as an enemy. This is
my favorite part, because I didnt expect that to happen, and it made the book and
the ending of the story much more interesting. I think that overall, this book is
very well written, and avid readers will gobble it up like a teenager would a pizza.

Plot: The DaVinci Code

By: Dan Brown

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The novel The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown, is a novel that takes place in the present day
and starts off in France. The books starts with a Harvard professor of iconology, Robert Langdon,
being driven by a French Police officer to a museum to help decrypt clues to a murder case.
When Langdon arrives at the museum crime scene, he meets Bezu Fache, who is the captain of
the case. About half way through the case, a member of the French cryptology department
arrives with a message for Langdon. In the message, she tells Langdon that he is the prime
suspect for the crime.
She helps him escape the museum, and while on the run, start to decipher pieces of code
left behind by Sophies grandfather, who was murdered at the museum. They decrypt an address,
and realize that the key that they found at the museum must unlock something at the address.
When they arrive at the address, they realize that it is a Swiss bank, and the key that they have,
unlocks Sophies grandfathers vault in the bank. While this is happening, Fache puts out an
arrest warrant on the duo, and pours resources into finding their whereabouts. After escaping the
bank with the box they found in the vault, they head to the estate of Landons friend, Leigh
Teabing, who had his legs crippled at a young age due to Polio.
When they get there, Langdon realizes the box from the bank, holds the key to finding the
Holy Grail, which he and Teabing explain to Sophie is actually the tomb of Mary Magdalene.
While in Teabings estate, they are attacked by an Albino Monk named Silas, who was sent by a
bishop to prevent the discovery of the Holy Grail, because if the documents buried with Mary
Magdalene were made public, they would largely derail the Catholic Churchs teachings.
After subduing Silas and evading the French Police Force one again, Langdon and Sophie
leave the country for England, and are accompanied by Teabing and his manservant Remi, with

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Silas as their hostage. When their unscheduled plane lands England, and the group narrowly
avoids the police, Teabing, Langdon and Sophie once again set to work deciphering the cryptic
messages left behind to find the Holy Grail.
As they visit a crypt to search for more clues, Remi betrays the group, releases Silas, and
takes the clues from Langdon and Teabing at gunpoint, taking Teabing as a hostage. After Remi
and Silas escape with Teabing, Silas returns to his headquarters in London, and Remi gets a call
from the teacher. It is revealed to us that the teacher is in fact Leigh Teabing, and the kidnapping
was all a hoax. Remi however had disobeyed the Teachers orders and showed his face at the
kidnapping, and so Langdon and Sophie knew he was involved. Teabing offers a drink to Remi,
but before giving him the drink, Teabing pours ground up peanuts into the drink. Remi who is
allergic to Peanuts sips the drink, and immediately dies on the spot of a reaction to the peanuts.
At the end of the novel, Teabing reveals himself to be the teacher, and threatens Langdon
and Neveu, and tells them to give him the key to finding the Grail. What he doesnt know
however, is the Langdon has already solved the puzzle and opened the box, and removed its
contents. When Teabing threatens him, Langdon throws the box into the air, and the crippled
Teabing in the fear of his lifes work being lost, dives to save it. When he catches the box, he
realizes it has already been opened and the contents removed. However he is now trapped on the
ground, due to his crippled legs. When the cops arrive, they arrest Silas and Teabing for murder
and assault, and Langdon is pronounced innocent. The book ends with Sophie meeting a woman
who she finds out is actually her grandmother, who she hasnt seen sense a young age. I really
enjoyed this book, and would recommend it to anyone who likes adventure or mystery novels.
Supplemental Book Project
Quiz: The Da Vinci Code

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1. What is the name of the religious group that the monk belongs to from the book?
2. Why does Fache think that Langdon is a prime suspect for the murders, and why doesnt
Langdon know this at first.
3. What is the name for the sequence of numbers written on the floor? (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13)
4. What subject does Langdon teach at Harvard College?
5. Who is the crippled man that helps Langdon and Neveu?
6. Where does the trio go to evade the French police force who is searching for them?
7. In what area of the French investigation unit does Sophie Neveu work?
8. Who is falsely accused of 4 murders in France?
9. Who is Leigh Teabing, and why does he help Langdon?
10. What is Langdon looking for with the help of Neveu and why?
11. Why was the Church so against the release of the documents Langdon was looking for?
12. Who is the man that has organized these attacks to steal the Holy Grail?
13. How does Teabings servant, Remy die in the limo towards the end of the book?
14. What is the name of the Albino Monk that chases around the trio while they look for the Holy
Grail?
15. What is the name of the museum that Langdon and Neveu escape from?
16. At what university does Robert Langdon teach?
17. What kind of wristwatch does Langdon wear?

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18. Why is Teabing so well known in England?

19. What disease is Leigh Teabing crippled by?
20. What secret society is Jacques the leader of?
21. Where does the language of Sangreal come from?
22. What is the name of the Swedish bank that the keystone is in?
23. What is the disease that Silas has?
24. How does Silas die?
25. How many men await the Bishop in the conference room?

Supplemental Book Project

Quiz: The Da Vinci Code (Answer Key)
1. What is the name of the religious group that the monk belongs to from the book?

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a. Opus Dei
2. Why does Fache think that Langdon is a prime suspect for the murders, and why doesnt
Langdon know this at first.
a. Because Langdons editor sent a copy of his latest manuscript to Jacques
Sauniere, without telling him, and Jacques had left a message for the police to
find Langdon, but the way he worded it, it made Langdon look like the murderer.
3. What is the name for the sequence of numbers written on the floor? (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13)
a. Fibonacci Sequence
4. What subject does Langdon teach at Harvard College?
a. Iconology
5. Who is the crippled man that helps Langdon and Neveu?
a. Sir Leigh Teabing
6. Where does the trio go to evade the French police force who is searching for them?
a. Teabings home country of England
7. In what area of the French investigation unit does Sophie Neveu work?
a. Cryptology
8. Who is falsely accused of 4 murders in France?
a. Robert Langdon
9. Who is Leigh Teabing, and why does he help Langdon?
a. He is an honorary Knight of England, and a grail enthusiast, whose lifes goal is
discovering the grail, and so he helps Langdon look for it. They also are good
friends.
10. What is Langdon looking for with the help of Neveu and why?
a. They are looking for the Holy Grail, because Neveus Grandfather left her clues
on how to find the Holy Grail.
11. Why was the Church so against the release of the documents Langdon was looking for?
a. The Documents known as the Holy Grail, would derail many of the Churchs
teachings, for they preach that Mary Magdalene and Jesus were married and many
other things that contradict the church.
12. Who is the man that has organized these attacks to steal the Holy Grail?
a. The Teacher, or Leigh Teabing
13. How does Teabings servant, Remi die in the limo towards the end of the book?
a. Leigh poisons him by putting peanuts in a drink he offers to Remi, which he is
deathly allergic to
14. What is the name of the Albino Monk that chases around the trio while they look for the
Holy Grail?

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a. Silas
15. What is the name of the museum that Langdon and Neveu escape from?
a. Musee du Louvre
16. At what university does Robert Langdon teach?
a. Harvard
17. What kind of wristwatch does Langdon wear?
a. Mickey Mouse
18. Why is Teabing so well known in England?
a. He is an honorary Knight of England
19. What disease is Leigh Teabing crippled by?
a. Polio
20. What secret society is Jacques the leader of?
a. The Priory of Scion
21. Where does the word San Greal come from?
a. It is derived from the ancient word Sangreal
22. What is the name of the Swedish bank that the keystone is in?
a. The Depository Bank of Zurich
23. What is the disease that Silas has?
a. Albinism
24. How does Silas die?
a. He is shot below the ribs by a police officers, and he prays in a garden, before
dying.
25. How many men await the Bishop in the conference room?
a. 8