2. 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.

3. What does Margot remember about Señor Bruni?
(a) Not much.
(b) He often bought her ice cream when he visited New York.
(c) He often bought her ice cream when he visited Denver.
(d) He was her mother's lover.

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

5. What is one thing Margot learns about the Catholic Church?
(a) Its politics.
(b) Its conservatism.
(c) Its deterioration.
(d) Its charitable works.

6. What does Margot think she and the sisters will need in the library?
(a) A scanner.
(b) A computer.
(c) A scaffold.
(d) A man for lifting.

7. 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 is accepted into Oxford.
(d) Margot becomes pregnant.

8. What changed Margot's life shortly after going to Villa I Tatti?
(a) Her boyfriend breaks off the engagement when he learns she is pregnant.
(b) Her brother is killed.
(c) She miscarries.
(d) Her mother becomes gravely ill.

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

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

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

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

13. What does Margot do while riding the train?
(a) Reads all about Botticelli.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Muses on her past.
(d) Takes pictures out the window.

14. Whose actions are not as impressive as his talk?
(a) Margeaux.
(b) Sister Margaret.
(c) Professor Chapin.
(d) Margot's.

15. What will happen when Margot goes to Italy?
(a) Her fiance says he will end their engagement.
(b) Her father will disown her.
(c) She will lose her job in the States.
(d) She will be in the running for a book award.