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

2. Why does Margot's father break down and cry years after her mother dies?
(a) Margot's brother is killed.
(b) Margot's sister reveals Margot's mother's infidelity to him.
(c) The tapes she recorded did not have anything on them.
(d) His second wife leaves him.

3. How does Margot replenish the supplies she needs for the library work?
(a) Asking the abbess.
(b) Asking Alessandro.
(c) Writing to her father and asking for money.
(d) She has all the supplies she needs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose actions are not as impressive as his talk?

3. What does Margot come to appreciate?

4. Who does Margot tell Postiglione came up with the drying process?

5. What does Margot remember about Señor Bruni?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Margot decide to do in Chapter 1 and who is against her doing so?

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

4. How is Margot spending time during the long plane and train rides?

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

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

7. What are Margot's options for a room when she gets off the train in Florence?

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

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

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

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