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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changed Margot's life shortly after going to Villa I Tatti?
(a) Her brother is killed.
(b) Her mother becomes gravely ill.
(c) Her boyfriend breaks off the engagement when he learns she is pregnant.
(d) She miscarries.

2. Where in the United States does Margot Harrington live?
(a) Chicago.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) New York.
(d) Denver.

3. Where does Margot decide to stay?
(a) In a hotel chain.
(b) At the YWCA.
(c) With an old friend.
(d) In a boarding house.

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

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. How does Margot manage to get back on the train?

2. Whose actions are not as impressive as his talk?

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

4. Why does Margot visit Villa I Tatti?

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

(see the answer key)

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