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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 17-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Margeaux?
(a) Margot's alter ego.
(b) Margot's mother's name.
(c) The name Margot calls her twin who was born first and dies before Margot is born.
(d) Margot's aunt after whom Margot is named.

2. What does Margot think of the next morning as she is walking?
(a) The young man on the train.
(b) The convent where she almost becomes a nun.
(c) Her mother and her walking in the same area when Margot is younger.
(d) The stranger who offers to buy her a drink.

3. About what does Volmaro say he is being generous?
(a) His agreement to wait for two weeks until Margot makes up her mind.
(b) The price he is offering for Margot's book.
(c) The price he heaps on Sandro.
(d) His descriptions of the conditions in North Africa during the war.

4. What does Father Francisco make clear to everyone?
(a) He is requesting a new assignment.
(b) He believes the nuns are wrong to have a library.
(c) He is traveling out of town and the ill nun will have to have another priest.
(d) He does not want to be disturbed unnecessarily.

5. What does Madre Badessa regret?
(a) Giving Margot the book that she is restoring.
(b) Offering Margot a place at the convent.
(c) Not seeing Sister Agata before her death.
(d) Staying on as a nun when she was young.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Madre Badessa ask Margot to bring to her?

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

3. What is neither great nor terrible that Margot experiences?

4. Who is Volmaro?

5. What does the Bishop discuss with Margot?

(see the answer key)

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