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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Margot learn one day when she returns to the convent after one of her forays?
(a) Her father is in Rome.
(b) Two of the posulants are in trouble.
(c) Her father is in Venice.
(d) Her brother is there.

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

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

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

5. Where does Margot decide to stay?
(a) At the YWCA.
(b) In a boarding house.
(c) With an old friend.
(d) In a hotel chain.

6. About what does the abbess challenge Margot?
(a) To value a book even though it is evil.
(b) To think about why God would want some women to become nuns.
(c) To think about why one becomes a nun.
(d) To say which vow is the most difficult to keep.

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

8. What signs does Margot see in the city?
(a) The damage from the flood.
(b) Of the discontent of the foreign workers.
(c) Of the widespread unemployment.
(d) Of the damage done by rioters.

9. Who introduces herself to Margot as she is exploring?
(a) The Mayor.
(b) The Abbess.
(c) The museum procurer.
(d) The museum curator.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Margot once live in this city?

3. What does Margot come to appreciate?

4. Why is Margot's mother ecstatic after Margot's visit to Villa I Tatti?

5. What does the bishop think the convent should not have?

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