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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 the convent.
(d) The history of dogma.

2. What do the nuns show Margot?
(a) How they can manage without help.
(b) Some catacombs under the sacristy.
(c) A secret compartment.
(d) Some statues.

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

4. When did Margot once live in this city?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1974.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1945.

5. What did Alessandro do on the day of the flood?
(a) Opens his apartment to others.
(b) Flies out of the city.
(c) Begins an affair.
(d) Moves to higher quarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Margot give a brief history?

2. What do Margot and the abbess discuss concerning nuns?

3. What is one thing Margot learns about the Catholic Church?

4. Where does Margot find Alessandro?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Margot discover about the book that the Abbess gives into Margot's care?

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

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