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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why might the convent not be financially viable?
(a) Damage from the floods.
(b) The convent has too many elderly nuns to support.
(c) The convent is losing postulates too often.
(d) The bishop withholds funds from the convent.

2. What is one thing Margot learns about the Catholic Church?
(a) Its conservatism.
(b) Its deterioration.
(c) Its charitable works.
(d) Its politics.

3. Whose actions are not as impressive as his talk?
(a) Margot's.
(b) Margeaux.
(c) Sister Margaret.
(d) Professor Chapin.

4. Why is Margot flying to Italy?
(a) To help repair old books.
(b) To meet her fiance and live in Venice for a month.
(c) To meet her father.
(d) To write her dissertation about Botticelli.

5. Who are the Mud Angels?
(a) What Margot calls young children making mud pies outside her flat.
(b) People who search the mud for valuables to sell.
(c) The dark-skinned children in the playground.
(d) Young people helping with the flood.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Margot become curious after a few weeks of working at the convent library?

2. Why is Margot's mother ecstatic after Margot's visit to Villa I Tatti?

3. Where in the United States does Margot Harrington live?

4. What happens to the taxi in which Margot is riding?

5. What does the Bishop want to see?

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