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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns Sister Gemma?
(a) Alessandro having to go into the hospital.
(b) Sister Agata dying without the Last Rites.
(c) Sister Agata telling secrets when she is delirious.
(d) The abbess dying.

2. What does the Bishop want to see?
(a) Margot.
(b) Alessandro.
(c) The book Margot has been restoring.
(d) The new frescoes.

3. Where does Margot go every afternoon to work on a book?
(a) The professor's apartment.
(b) Alessandro's apartment.
(c) The monastery.
(d) The museum.

4. What does Father Francisco make clear to everyone?
(a) He does not want to be disturbed unnecessarily.
(b) He is traveling out of town and the ill nun will have to have another priest.
(c) He believes the nuns are wrong to have a library.
(d) He is requesting a new assignment.

5. In what has Sandro been unlucky in the past?
(a) Love.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Jobs.
(d) His health.

6. Why does the Bishop reprimand Margot?
(a) For visiting Alessandro in his apartment alone.
(b) For staying at the convent.
(c) For not calling the priest when Sister Gemma is dying.
(d) For not calling the priest when Sister Agata is dying.

7. About what is Margot nervous?
(a) A visit from her father.
(b) A visit from Sister Gemma.
(c) A talk with the abbess.
(d) A visit from Alessandro.

8. What does Margot put in between the pages of the book she is working on?
(a) Charcoal paper.
(b) Palm leaves.
(c) Absorbent paper.
(d) Banana leaves.

9. Why is Margot called into Madre Badessa's office?
(a) The Madre was worried about Margot.
(b) To learn about the restoration of the book.
(c) To hear a piece of music.
(d) To see a new fresco found in the library archives.

10. What is the chamber in which Margot places the book?
(a) Hot.
(b) Hyler.
(c) Thymol.
(d) Cold.

11. What does Madre Badessa offer Margot?
(a) Advice about Alessandro.
(b) A place to stay as long as Margot wishes.
(c) Some new books on God.
(d) A small stipend.

12. Where are the workers getting ready to detach some frescoes?
(a) Lodovici Chapel.
(b) The convent's library.
(c) The Venetian Fine Arts Gallery.
(d) The Florence Fine Arts Gallery.

13. To what is Margot very drawn?
(a) The Lodovici Chapel.
(b) The convent.
(c) A man she meets at the Lodovici Chapel.
(d) A man she meets at a small cafe.

14. Who does Margot think should get the money from the sale of the book she is restoring?
(a) The sisters.
(b) Alessandro.
(c) The Bishop.
(d) The Venice museum.

15. What does Madre Badessa regret?
(a) Staying on as a nun when she was young.
(b) Not seeing Sister Agata before her death.
(c) Giving Margot the book that she is restoring.
(d) Offering Margot a place at the convent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which nun is Margot's best friend of all the nuns?

2. How does Margot create income for herself?

3. Where does Margot take a train?

4. What does Chapter 13 concern?

5. What does Margot want to keep away from the Bishop?

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