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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's mother ecstatic after Margot's visit to Villa I Tatti?
(a) Margot is accepted into Harvard.
(b) Margot becomes engaged.
(c) Margot is accepted into Oxford.
(d) Margot becomes pregnant.

2. What invitation does Margot decline?
(a) An offer of a room upgrade for more money.
(b) An invitation to have a drink at a nearby bar.
(c) An invitation to see the Coliseum the next day.
(d) An invitation to stay at a stranger's home.

3. What does Margot's mother decide to do when she is dying?
(a) Visit Greenland.
(b) Go to visit Tahiti.
(c) Record messages for her family.
(d) Tell her daughter a long-kept secret.

4. Why does Margot's father break down and cry years after her mother dies?
(a) Margot's brother is killed.
(b) The tapes she recorded did not have anything on them.
(c) His second wife leaves him.
(d) Margot's sister reveals Margot's mother's infidelity to him.

5. When did Margot once live in this city?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1966.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the professor ask Margot a few days later in a taxi?

2. What will happen when Margot goes to Italy?

3. Who speaks to Margo in French?

4. On what day does Professor Chapin leave Margot stranded?

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

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