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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Margot inadvertently learn while the train is traveling through France?
(a) The acts of an embezzler in her train car.
(b) The propensity of Italian men to pinch women.
(c) Intimate details about two American women.
(d) The bank heist by a man in the next car over.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Where does Margot finally disembark for good?
(a) Rome.
(b) Venice.
(c) Tuscany.
(d) Florence.

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

9. Of what does Margot give a brief history?
(a) Marriage in Venice.
(b) The religious order where she is now staying.
(c) The canals of Venice.
(d) Art in Florence.

10. Why does Margot visit Villa I Tatti?
(a) For an interview.
(b) To study the ruins.
(c) To meet her father.
(d) To meet a lover.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the train conductor tell Margot a bit later?

2. What does Margot realize about the books she quickly assesses?

3. What poem does Margot remember as she realizes she has been left stranded?

4. What does Madre Badessa ask Margot to do?

5. What challenge does the abbess have with the bishop?

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