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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Margot hesitant to contact?
(a) Her boss in the United States.
(b) The Professor.
(c) Alessandro.
(d) Her father.

2. What challenge does the abbess have with the bishop?
(a) His attitude towards women.
(b) His need to always be right.
(c) His thinking the convent does not do enough for the people in their neighborhood.
(d) His rumored indiscretions.

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

4. What will happen when Margot goes to Italy?
(a) She will lose her job in the States.
(b) She will be in the running for a book award.
(c) Her fiance says he will end their engagement.
(d) Her father will disown her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks to Margo in French?

2. What signs does Margot see in the city?

3. About what does the abbess challenge Margot?

4. What does the train conductor tell Margot a bit later?

5. What advice from Alessandro did the monastery disregard?

(see the answer key)

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