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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 did Alessandro do on the day of the flood?
(a) Opens his apartment to others.
(b) Begins an affair.
(c) Flies out of the city.
(d) Moves to higher quarters.

2. What shocks Margot while she is still in the abbess' office?
(a) The graphic images of a book she opens.
(b) That the abbess is unhappy about the bishop.
(c) That the abbess was a young widow when she becomes a nun.
(d) That the postulates can still decide to quit.

3. What does the professor ask Margot a few days later in a taxi?
(a) If she wants to be his lover.
(b) If she will quit working with him.
(c) If she will travel back to the States to get some books he needs.
(d) If she has been to the Alps.

4. About what was Abbott Remo worried after the flood?
(a) Cholera.
(b) The mold and mildew.
(c) The lack of clean water.
(d) The frescoes.

5. Who does Margot tell Postiglione came up with the drying process?
(a) A taxi driver.
(b) Herself.
(c) Professor Chapin.
(d) No one; they have not yet solved the problem.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Margeaux?

2. What does Margot learn one day when she returns to the convent after one of her forays?

3. What does Margot think she and the sisters will need in the library?

4. Where does Margot finally disembark for good?

5. Where does Margot stay?

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