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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Margot want to see?
(a) A book the postulants keep overnight.
(b) The head of the library.
(c) The abbess to ask her about the convent.
(d) Where they keep the oldest of the convent's books.

3. Where does Margot decide to stay?
(a) At the YWCA.
(b) With an old friend.
(c) In a boarding house.
(d) In a hotel chain.

4. What does Margot think of the next morning as she is walking?
(a) The convent where she almost becomes a nun.
(b) Her mother and her walking in the same area when Margot is younger.
(c) The stranger who offers to buy her a drink.
(d) The young man on the train.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why might the convent not be financially viable?

2. Why is Margot's mother ecstatic after Margot's visit to Villa I Tatti?

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

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

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

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