2. What does Margot come to appreciate?
(a) The way the nuns are so careful.
(b) The sheer quantity of books in the library.
(c) The fact that each nun has a specialty area.
(d) They way the nuns work.

3. What do the nuns show Margot?
(a) A secret compartment.
(b) Some statues.
(c) Some catacombs under the sacristy.
(d) How they can manage without help.

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

5. Where in the United States does Margot Harrington live?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Denver.
(c) New York.
(d) San Francisco.

6. What history does the abbess recount to Margot?
(a) The history of dogma.
(b) The history of religion.
(c) The history of books.
(d) The history of the convent.

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

8. Where does Margot stay?
(a) Pension Medici.
(b) Her out-of-twon friend's flat.
(c) The Hilton.
(d) Pension Grazi.

9. What does the abbess in response to Margot's reply to the challenge?
(a) That women become nuns for hundreds of reasons.
(b) That obedience is the most difficult vow to keep.
(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.

10. Who is Professor Eugene Chapin?
(a) The man for whom Margot is to translate.
(b) Margot's uncle.
(c) A professor at Oxford when Margot attended as an undergrad.
(d) A professor at Harvard when Margot attended as an undergrad.

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

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

13. Why is Margot's mother ecstatic after Margot's visit to Villa I Tatti?
(a) Margot becomes engaged.
(b) Margot is accepted into Harvard.
(c) Margot becomes pregnant.
(d) Margot is accepted into Oxford.

14. Where does Margot think many repairs need to be made?
(a) On the outside of the books.
(b) She is not yet certain.
(c) On the inside of the books.
(d) On the preservation covers.

15. 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 her former college acquaintance.
(c) She disembarks to purchase food.
(d) She is detained by a policeman.