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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 challenge does the abbess have with the bishop?
(a) His need to always be right.
(b) His thinking the convent does not do enough for the people in their neighborhood.
(c) His attitude towards women.
(d) His rumored indiscretions.

2. Why does Margot visit Villa I Tatti?
(a) For an interview.
(b) To meet a lover.
(c) To study the ruins.
(d) To meet her father.

3. From whose point of view is the first part of Chapter 4 written?
(a) Dottor Alessandro Postiglione.
(b) Margot.
(c) Margeaux.
(d) Professor Chapin.

4. What does Margot discover about the nuns?
(a) They sing while working.
(b) They are all from Rome.
(c) They are all elderly.
(d) They work in silence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Margot give a brief history?

2. What do the nuns show Margot?

3. What did Alessandro do on the day of the flood?

4. What signs does Margot see in the city?

5. What shocks Margot while she is still in the abbess' office?

(see the answer key)

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