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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Margot learn one day when she returns to the convent after one of her forays?
(a) Her father is in Rome.
(b) Two of the posulants are in trouble.
(c) Her father is in Venice.
(d) Her brother is there.

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

3. What does Lucia bring with her to a convent when she joins?
(a) A rebellious attitude.
(b) A large dowry.
(c) Devotion to Mary.
(d) Skepticism.

4. About what does Margot inadvertently learn while the train is traveling through France?
(a) The bank heist by a man in the next car over.
(b) The propensity of Italian men to pinch women.
(c) The acts of an embezzler in her train car.
(d) Intimate details about two American women.

5. What history does the abbess recount to Margot?
(a) The history of the convent.
(b) The history of books.
(c) The history of religion.
(d) The history of dogma.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margot discover about the nuns?

2. Who is Margeaux?

3. About what was Abbott Remo worried after the flood?

4. What is neither great nor terrible that Margot experiences?

5. Where does Margot decide to stay?

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