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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. About what does Margot become curious after a few weeks of working at the convent library?
(a) Where Alessandro spends his time.
(b) The nun's lives.
(c) How her father is doing.
(d) The Church's doctrine.

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

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

5. When does Lucia live?
(a) The early 20th century.
(b) The late 19th century.
(c) The early 18th century.
(d) The early 17th century.

6. What does Madre Badessa ask Margot to do?
(a) Talk with a priest about a book.
(b) Value a book.
(c) Consider becoming a nun.
(d) Leave the convent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is neither great nor terrible that Margot experiences?
(a) Being lovers with Professor Chapin.
(b) The drawings she makes of the canal system in Venice.
(c) The drawings she makes of several pictures in the Louvre.
(d) The work she does translating.

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

15. When did Margot once live in this city?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1966.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Margot decide to stay?

2. Who does Margot tell Postiglione came up with the drying process?

3. Who does Margot encounter when she changes compartments on the train?

4. Who is Professor Eugene Chapin?

5. Who is Margot hesitant to contact?

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