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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What do Margot and the person who introduces herself to Margot discuss?
(a) The difficulty of buying well-known artifacts.
(b) The difficulty of authenticating some of the paintings.
(c) The convent library.
(d) The city's need for more tourism.

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

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

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

7. What is one thing Margot learns about the Catholic Church?
(a) Its charitable works.
(b) Its conservatism.
(c) Its deterioration.
(d) Its politics.

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

9. What does the bishop think the convent should not have?
(a) A t. v. room.
(b) A gym.
(c) A library.
(d) Access to secular movies.

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

11. 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.

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

13. What shocks Margot while she is still in the abbess' office?
(a) That the abbess was a young widow when she becomes a nun.
(b) That the postulates can still decide to quit.
(c) The graphic images of a book she opens.
(d) That the abbess is unhappy about the bishop.

14. What is Margot drawn to when she is exploring because they are done by a woman named Lucia?
(a) Wool rugs.
(b) Tapestries.
(c) Icons.
(d) Frescoes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Margot become curious after a few weeks of working at the convent library?

2. What does Margot learn one day when she returns to the convent after one of her forays?

3. What do Margot and the abbess discuss concerning nuns?

4. What happens to the taxi in which Margot is riding?

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

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