2. Why is Margot's mother ecstatic after Margot's visit to Villa I Tatti?
(a) Margot becomes engaged.
(b) Margot is accepted into Harvard.
(c) Margot is accepted into Oxford.
(d) Margot becomes pregnant.

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

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

5. What did Alessandro do on the day of the flood?
(a) Begins an affair.
(b) Opens his apartment to others.
(c) Flies out of the city.
(d) Moves to higher quarters.

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

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

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

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

10. About what was Abbott Remo worried after the flood?
(a) The mold and mildew.
(b) Cholera.
(c) The frescoes.
(d) The lack of clean water.

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

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

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

14. What has been discovered in the library?
(a) A pornographic book.
(b) A rat.
(c) The source of the dampness.
(d) A mother with kittens.

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