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

2. Who are the Mud Angels?
(a) What Margot calls young children making mud pies outside her flat.
(b) The dark-skinned children in the playground.
(c) Young people helping with the flood.
(d) People who search the mud for valuables to sell.

3. What changed Margot's life shortly after going to Villa I Tatti?
(a) Her mother becomes gravely ill.
(b) She miscarries.
(c) Her boyfriend breaks off the engagement when he learns she is pregnant.
(d) Her brother is killed.

4. What happens to the taxi in which Margot is riding?
(a) Its radiator boils over.
(b) The driver crashes it into a car in front of him.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It gets a flat tire.

5. What do Margot and the person who introduces herself to Margot discuss?
(a) The difficulty of buying well-known artifacts.
(b) The difficulty of authenticating some of the paintings.
(c) The convent library.
(d) The city's need for more tourism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where in the United States does Margot Harrington live?

3. About what does Margot inadvertently learn while the train is traveling through France?

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

5. When did Margot once live in this city?

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