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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What challenge does the abbess have with the bishop?
(a) His thinking the convent does not do enough for the people in their neighborhood.
(b) His need to always be right.
(c) His rumored indiscretions.
(d) His attitude towards women.

2. Who speaks to Margo in French?
(a) The police officer.
(b) A stranger who offers assistance.
(c) The boardinghouse madam.
(d) The taxi driver.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Margot manage to get back on the train?
(a) Someone pulls the emergency stop cord.
(b) She yells just as the conductor is about to signal the all-clear to the engineer.
(c) She jumps and the young man she saw earlier grabs her hands.
(d) The conductor pulls her up onto the car as the train is barely moving.

10. 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.

11. What does the train conductor tell Margot a bit later?
(a) Her stop is next.
(b) The tracks are washed out where she is going and she has to disembark.
(c) She owes more money on her ticket.
(d) To return to her former compartment.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day does Professor Chapin leave Margot stranded?

2. Who are the Mud Angels?

3. When did Margot once live in this city?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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