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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do the nuns show Margot?
(a) How they can manage without help.
(b) Some catacombs under the sacristy.
(c) A secret compartment.
(d) Some statues.

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

8. What will happen when Margot goes to Italy?
(a) Her father will disown her.
(b) Her fiance says he will end their engagement.
(c) She will be in the running for a book award.
(d) She will lose her job in the States.

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

10. Why is Margot flying to Italy?
(a) To meet her father.
(b) To help repair old books.
(c) To write her dissertation about Botticelli.
(d) To meet her fiance and live in Venice for a month.

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

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

13. What does Margot's mother decide to do when she is dying?
(a) Record messages for her family.
(b) Tell her daughter a long-kept secret.
(c) Visit Greenland.
(d) Go to visit Tahiti.

14. Who is Margeaux?
(a) Margot's aunt after whom Margot is named.
(b) The name Margot calls her twin who was born first and dies before Margot is born.
(c) Margot's alter ego.
(d) Margot's mother's name.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About what does the abbess challenge Margot?

3. What is one thing Margot learns about the Catholic Church?

4. What is more important than quantity in the library?

5. Who introduces herself to Margot as she is exploring?

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