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

2. What signs does Margot see in the city?
(a) Of the damage done by rioters.
(b) The damage from the flood.
(c) Of the discontent of the foreign workers.
(d) Of the widespread unemployment.

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

4. What does the train conductor tell Margot a bit later?
(a) The tracks are washed out where she is going and she has to disembark.
(b) She owes more money on her ticket.
(c) To return to her former compartment.
(d) Her stop is next.

5. What does Madre Badessa ask Margot to do?
(a) Talk with a priest about a book.
(b) Consider becoming a nun.
(c) Value a book.
(d) Leave the convent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From whose point of view is the first part of Chapter 4 written?

3. What shocks Margot while she is still in the abbess' office?

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

5. What does Margot come to appreciate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene when the taxi gets a flat tire.

2. Why are two of the postulants in trouble?

3. How does Margot respond to working at the convent?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does the situation about the cassette tapes affect Margot's life even years later?

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