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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 does Margot almost miss the train as it is leaving a scheduled stop?
(a) She disembarks to purchase food.
(b) She is detained by a policeman.
(c) She disembarks to purchase souvenirs.
(d) She is detained by her former college acquaintance.

2. 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) Intimate details about two American women.
(d) The acts of an embezzler in her train car.

3. What does Margot do while riding the train?
(a) Takes pictures out the window.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Reads all about Botticelli.
(d) Muses on her past.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Margot's father break down and cry years after her mother dies?

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

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

4. What invitation does Margot decline?

5. Who does Margot tell Postiglione came up with the drying process?

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