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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 does Margot learn one day when she returns to the convent after one of her forays?
(a) Her father is in Venice.
(b) Two of the posulants are in trouble.
(c) Her father is in Rome.
(d) Her brother is there.

2. What poem does Margot remember as she realizes she has been left stranded?
(a) "A Brook in the City."
(b) "A Dream Pang."
(c) "The Road not Taken."
(d) "A Time to Talk."

3. What history does the abbess recount to Margot?
(a) The history of books.
(b) The history of dogma.
(c) The history of religion.
(d) The history of the convent.

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

5. Why does Margot visit Villa I Tatti?
(a) For an interview.
(b) To meet a lover.
(c) To meet her father.
(d) To study the ruins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Margot want to see?

3. What does Margot realize about the books she quickly assesses?

4. What reminds Margot of a prison?

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

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