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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have the bookshelves been damaged?
(a) They are not damaged.
(b) They have warped.
(c) They have bent under the weight of books.
(d) They have swelled.

2. What invitation does Margot decline?
(a) An invitation to see the Coliseum the next day.
(b) An invitation to stay at a stranger's home.
(c) An invitation to have a drink at a nearby bar.
(d) An offer of a room upgrade for more money.

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

4. Who are the Mud Angels?
(a) What Margot calls young children making mud pies outside her flat.
(b) People who search the mud for valuables to sell.
(c) The dark-skinned children in the playground.
(d) Young people helping with the flood.

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

6. What happens to the taxi in which Margot is riding?
(a) The driver crashes it into a car in front of him.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It gets a flat tire.
(d) Its radiator boils over.

7. Where does Margot find Alessandro?
(a) At a small cafe.
(b) At the Lodovici Chapel.
(c) At his apartment.
(d) At the convent.

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

9. What does Margot want to see?
(a) A book the postulants keep overnight.
(b) The abbess to ask her about the convent.
(c) The head of the library.
(d) Where they keep the oldest of the convent's books.

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

11. Who does Margot meet one day later than originally scheduled?
(a) Eugene.
(b) Thomas.
(c) No one.
(d) Charles.

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

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

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

15. Why is Margot flying to Italy?
(a) To write her dissertation about Botticelli.
(b) To meet her father.
(c) To meet her fiance and live in Venice for a month.
(d) To help repair old books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the conductor reveal to the two women in Margot's compartment?

2. What do the nuns show Margot?

3. What does Margot think she and the sisters will need in the library?

4. Of what does Margot give a brief history?

5. When did Margot once live in this city?

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