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'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown - Book Club Discussion Questions

'The Lost Symbol' - Reading Group Guide

By Erin Collazo Miller, About.com

'The Lost Symbol' by Dan Brown

'The Lost Symbol'

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown is Brown's third Robert Langdon thriller. In The Lost Symbol, Langdon must unlock the secrets of Freemasonry to stop a killer. Use these book club discussion questions on The Lost Symbol to lead your reading group into the book.

Spoiler Warning: These book club discussion questions reveal important details about The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Finish the book before reading on.

  1. If you have read The Da Vinci Code or Angels & Demons, how do you think The Lost Symbol compared to Brown's other books?
  2. Katherine Solomon worked in a field called Noetic Science. Do you think it is possible that the human brain can transform matter? Would you consider Noetics a real science?
  3. Do you think that a secret knowledge could exist, such as the Ancient Mysteries?
  4. Are you surprised by how many of America's founders were Freemasons? What do you think of all the Masonic imagery in American art and architecture?
  5. Do you think it would actually cause a "national security crisis" if somebody had a video of high level government officials participating in the rituals described in The Lost Symbol? Why or why not?
  6. Were you surprised to find out that Mal'akh was actually Zachary Solomon?
  7. Rate The Lost Symbol on a scale of 1 to 5.

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