2. What reminds Margot of a prison?
(a) The rooms in the Pension.
(b) Her little cell at the convent.
(c) The catacombs of Rome.
(d) The rooms in the outer city of the Vatican.

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

4. Why might the convent not be financially viable?
(a) The bishop withholds funds from the convent.
(b) The convent has too many elderly nuns to support.
(c) The convent is losing postulates too often.
(d) Damage from the floods.

5. What has been discovered in the library?
(a) The source of the dampness.
(b) A rat.
(c) A pornographic book.
(d) A mother with kittens.

6. What poem does Margot remember as she realizes she has been left stranded?
(a) "The Road not Taken."
(b) "A Time to Talk."
(c) "A Dream Pang."
(d) "A Brook in the City."

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

8. What does the abbess in response to Margot's reply to the challenge?
(a) That obedience is the most difficult vow to keep.
(b) She has no idea why God would want some women to become nuns.
(c) That women become nuns for hundreds of reasons.
(d) That a book is evil only if in the wrong hands.

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

10. How does Margot manage to get back on the train?
(a) The conductor pulls her up onto the car as the train is barely moving.
(b) Someone pulls the emergency stop cord.
(c) She jumps and the young man she saw earlier grabs her hands.
(d) She yells just as the conductor is about to signal the all-clear to the engineer.

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

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

13. Why does Margot's father break down and cry years after her mother dies?
(a) His second wife leaves him.
(b) Margot's sister reveals Margot's mother's infidelity to him.
(c) Margot's brother is killed.
(d) The tapes she recorded did not have anything on them.

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

15. What advice from Alessandro did the monastery disregard?
(a) Installing a moisture barrier.
(b) Installing a sump pump.
(c) Moving the frescoes to a museum.
(d) Nothing.