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

2. What advice from Alessandro did the monastery disregard?
(a) Moving the frescoes to a museum.
(b) Installing a moisture barrier.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Installing a sump pump.

3. What is Margot drawn to when she is exploring because they are done by a woman named Lucia?
(a) Wool rugs.
(b) Icons.
(c) Frescoes.
(d) Tapestries.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what was Abbott Remo worried after the flood?

2. What does the conductor reveal to the two women in Margot's compartment?

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

4. Who does Margot encounter when she changes compartments on the train?

5. What do Margot and the person who introduces herself to Margot discuss?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Margot drawn to some frescoes she views in the convent and how is that uncharacteristic of her?

2. How is the monastery partially responsible for the possible damage to some of their frescoes?

3. Why are two of the postulants in trouble?

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

5. Where does Margot end up staying and what does she do on her first morning in Florence?

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

7. What are Margot's impressions of Professor Eugene Chapin?

8. Discuss the significance of Señor Bruni in Margot's life as a teenager.

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

10. What does Margot's new living quarters remind her of and how does she change that?

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