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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 the abbess in response to Margot's reply to the challenge?
(a) That obedience is the most difficult vow to keep.
(b) That women become nuns for hundreds of reasons.
(c) She has no idea why God would want some women to become nuns.
(d) That a book is evil only if in the wrong hands.

2. Who does Margot meet one day later than originally scheduled?
(a) Eugene.
(b) Charles.
(c) Thomas.
(d) No one.

3. When does Lucia live?
(a) The early 20th century.
(b) The late 19th century.
(c) The early 17th century.
(d) The early 18th century.

4. About what does Margot inadvertently learn while the train is traveling through France?
(a) Intimate details about two American women.
(b) The propensity of Italian men to pinch women.
(c) The acts of an embezzler in her train car.
(d) The bank heist by a man in the next car over.

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 does Margot encounter when she changes compartments on the train?

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

3. What does Margot's mother decide to do when she is dying?

4. For what does Margot listen during brief moments of silence?

5. What does Madre Badessa ask Margot to do?

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