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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is more important than quantity in the library?
(a) Authenticity.
(b) Organization.
(c) Preservation.
(d) Quality.

6. Where does Margot finally disembark for good?
(a) Venice.
(b) Tuscany.
(c) Rome.
(d) Florence.

7. 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.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Margot come to appreciate?
(a) The fact that each nun has a specialty area.
(b) They way the nuns work.
(c) The way the nuns are so careful.
(d) The sheer quantity of books in the library.

13. 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.

14. 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 Rome.
(c) Her father is in Venice.
(d) Her brother is there.

15. Who are the Mud Angels?
(a) People who search the mud for valuables to sell.
(b) The dark-skinned children in the playground.
(c) Young people helping with the flood.
(d) What Margot calls young children making mud pies outside her flat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reminds Margot of a prison?

2. What does the abbess in response to Margot's reply to the challenge?

3. How does Margot replenish the supplies she needs for the library work?

4. Where in the United States does Margot Harrington live?

5. What does Margot's mother decide to do when she is dying?

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