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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9: Chapter 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What choice is given to Ellena in Chapter 8?
(a) To accept the veil or marry a husband chosen for her.
(b) The color of her wedding gown.
(c) To repent her sins or flee the country.
(d) The fate of prisoners of the state.

2. What does Vivaldi hear Ellena singing when he returns to the villa alone after Bonarmo refuses to accompany him?
(a) An opera.
(b) The song he serenaded her with.
(c) The Italian national anthem.
(d) A religious hymn.

3. What benefit does Ellena gain after meeting Olivia?
(a) A room with a beautiful view.
(b) A letter from Vivaldi.
(c) Access to forbidden fruit.
(d) A large cask of wine.

4. What does Vivaldi's father claim on the subject of Ellena's disappearance?
(a) That she has not disappeared.
(b) It was his son's fault.
(c) He was the mastermind of the operation.
(d) Ignorance of the matter.

5. Why does Ellena admonish the abbess?
(a) For lacking respect for Ellena's precepts of a holy religion.
(b) The tightness of the bindings holding her.
(c) For the unfair treatment of servants.
(d) For the lack of food she was given.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marchesa di Vivaldi worried about in Chapter 14?

2. What does Ellena suspect of her breakfast in Chapter 19?

3. Why is Vivaldi advised not to pursue Ellena?

4. What stops Schedoni from harming Ellena in Chapter 20?

5. Who does the Marchesa question about the rumor's validity?

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