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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why might the convent not be financially viable?
(a) The convent is losing postulates too often.
(b) Damage from the floods.
(c) The convent has too many elderly nuns to support.
(d) The bishop withholds funds from the convent.

2. What does Margot want to see?
(a) The head of the library.
(b) A book the postulants keep overnight.
(c) Where they keep the oldest of the convent's books.
(d) The abbess to ask her about the convent.

3. What has been discovered in the library?
(a) A pornographic book.
(b) A rat.
(c) A mother with kittens.
(d) The source of the dampness.

4. What advice from Alessandro did the monastery disregard?
(a) Installing a sump pump.
(b) Moving the frescoes to a museum.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Installing a moisture barrier.

5. What does Margot discover about the nuns?
(a) They are all from Rome.
(b) They are all elderly.
(c) They work in silence.
(d) They sing while working.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who does Margot encounter when she changes compartments on the train?

4. About what does Margot become curious after a few weeks of working at the convent library?

5. Why does Margot almost miss the train as it is leaving a scheduled stop?

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