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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 changes in Margot and Alessandro's relationship?
(a) Nothing.
(b) His wife arrives.
(c) They become lovers.
(d) They becomes more like colleagues.

2. What has been embarrassing for Sandro?
(a) His wife seeing him with Margot.
(b) The extent of the examination into his declaration of impotency.
(c) His mother knowing what he is declaring.
(d) His best friend writing him about a solution to his impotency.

3. About what does Volmaro say he is being generous?
(a) The price he heaps on Sandro.
(b) The price he is offering for Margot's book.
(c) His agreement to wait for two weeks until Margot makes up her mind.
(d) His descriptions of the conditions in North Africa during the war.

4. What does Margot ask Volmaro as he is counting out money?
(a) If he will pay in American dollars.
(b) How Volmaro arrived at a price for the book Margot is selling.
(c) If he will auction the book.
(d) If he will broker the book rather than buying it outright.

5. Why does Sandro decide he will not ask Margot to marry him?
(a) She is too naive.
(b) He wants to try to make his present marriage work.
(c) He is unworthy of her.
(d) She is too old to have children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sandro think has changed about Margot from when he first met her?

2. Where are the workers getting ready to detach some frescoes?

3. With what does Sandro have difficulty when he and Margot are eating?

4. What does Sandro appreciate about Margot?

5. What does Madre Badessa regret?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Madre Badessa say about Aretino?

2. What has Margot done to restore Aretino?

3. What do Sandro and Margot do and what is Margot's response?

4. What does Margot send to the Bishop and how does she convince him that it is Aretino?

5. How does Margot set up a false trail for auctioning Aretino?

6. Relate Sandro's story about his love for a movie star when he was young.

7. When is Margot ready for the final phase of restoring Aretino; where does she go for help in this phase and what does she do?

8. Why does Margot feel nervous when she returns to the convent after the first time she and Sandro make love and what is the outcome?

9. How does Sandro's feelings change from the time of entering the annulment proceedings to after meeting with the judges?

10. How does Sandro shock Margot a couple weeks after the fresco removal?

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