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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What makes Margot change her mind about her plans in late December?
(a) Her boss.
(b) Her father.
(c) Watching Alessandro cross the piazza.
(d) Madre Badessa.

3. How does Margot replenish the supplies she needs for the library work?
(a) Asking Alessandro.
(b) Writing to her father and asking for money.
(c) Asking the abbess.
(d) She has all the supplies she needs.

4. Who is Volmaro?
(a) The taxi driver who offers a solution to water damage.
(b) The curator of Southby's auction.
(c) The head judge on Sandro's annulment proceedings.
(d) The rare book dealer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will Sandro rejoin?

2. What month does Sandro decide Margot is?

3. With whom does Margot spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?

4. Who does Margot tell Postiglione came up with the drying process?

5. About what does Volmaro say he is being generous?

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