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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have the bookshelves been damaged?
(a) They have swelled.
(b) They have warped.
(c) They are not damaged.
(d) They have bent under the weight of books.

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

3. From whose point of view is the first part of Chapter 4 written?
(a) Dottor Alessandro Postiglione.
(b) Professor Chapin.
(c) Margeaux.
(d) Margot.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the bishop think the convent should not have?

2. Where does Margot think many repairs need to be made?

3. What does Margot think of the next morning as she is walking?

4. What does Margot think she and the sisters will need in the library?

5. Why does Margot visit Villa I Tatti?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margot react to the book that the postulants keep over night, and what is Madre Badessa's reaction?

2. Who is Margeaux, and describe a scene that Margeaux is good at.

3. What is the significance of Harvard University to Margot?

4. What is the significance of the cassette tapes when Margot's mother is dying?

5. What does Margot discover about the way the nuns work and how does Margot react?

6. What do Margot and Madre Badessa discuss concerning the nuns' vows?

7. About what does Margot become curious while working at the convent, and what does she learn?

8. How does Margot first offend two American travelers on the train and then bond with them?

9. Describe Margot's discussion of the library with Madre Badessa.

10. What did Alessandro do on the day of the November 4th flood?

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