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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Margot drawn to when she is exploring because they are done by a woman named Lucia?
(a) Wool rugs.
(b) Icons.
(c) Tapestries.
(d) Frescoes.

3. What does Margot discover about the nuns?
(a) They are all elderly.
(b) They work in silence.
(c) They sing while working.
(d) They are all from Rome.

4. What does Margot learn one day when she returns to the convent after one of her forays?
(a) Two of the posulants are in trouble.
(b) Her brother is there.
(c) Her father is in Rome.
(d) Her father is in Venice.

5. What does Margot's mother decide to do when she is dying?
(a) Record messages for her family.
(b) Tell her daughter a long-kept secret.
(c) Visit Greenland.
(d) Go to visit Tahiti.

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

7. Who introduces herself to Margot as she is exploring?
(a) The museum procurer.
(b) The Mayor.
(c) The museum curator.
(d) The Abbess.

8. What does the professor ask Margot a few days later in a taxi?
(a) If she has been to the Alps.
(b) If she wants to be his lover.
(c) If she will travel back to the States to get some books he needs.
(d) If she will quit working with him.

9. What does the conductor reveal to the two women in Margot's compartment?
(a) That Margot is a wealthy heiress.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That Margot is meeting her father in Italy.
(d) That Margot is American.

10. Why does Margot almost miss the train as it is leaving a scheduled stop?
(a) She disembarks to purchase souvenirs.
(b) She is detained by a policeman.
(c) She is detained by her former college acquaintance.
(d) She disembarks to purchase food.

11. What does Margot realize about the books she quickly assesses?
(a) They are terribly damaged.
(b) They are mostly relevant to the Catholic church.
(c) They are very valuable.
(d) They are not too damaged on the inside.

12. For what does Margot listen during brief moments of silence?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Her father's cries.
(d) Her mother's voice.

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

14. What do Margot and the abbess discuss concerning nuns?
(a) The reason for wearing habits.
(b) Leaving the convent.
(c) Celibacy.
(d) God and vows.

15. What did Alessandro do on the day of the flood?
(a) Begins an affair.
(b) Opens his apartment to others.
(c) Moves to higher quarters.
(d) Flies out of the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What invitation does Margot decline?

2. What history does the abbess recount to Margot?

3. What does Margot do while riding the train?

4. What changed Margot's life shortly after going to Villa I Tatti?

5. Where does Margot decide to stay?

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