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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Margot think of the next morning as she is walking?
(a) The young man on the train.
(b) The stranger who offers to buy her a drink.
(c) The convent where she almost becomes a nun.
(d) Her mother and her walking in the same area when Margot is younger.

4. How does Margot manage to get back on the train?
(a) Someone pulls the emergency stop cord.
(b) She jumps and the young man she saw earlier grabs her hands.
(c) She yells just as the conductor is about to signal the all-clear to the engineer.
(d) The conductor pulls her up onto the car as the train is barely moving.

5. What does the train conductor tell Margot a bit later?
(a) Her stop is next.
(b) She owes more money on her ticket.
(c) The tracks are washed out where she is going and she has to disembark.
(d) To return to her former compartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Margot decide to stay?

2. What poem does Margot remember as she realizes she has been left stranded?

3. Who does Margot meet one day later than originally scheduled?

4. What does Margot's mother decide to do when she is dying?

5. Why does Margot almost miss the train as it is leaving a scheduled stop?

(see the answer key)

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