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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Margot visit Villa I Tatti?
(a) To meet a lover.
(b) To meet her father.
(c) To study the ruins.
(d) For an interview.

2. What does the professor ask Margot a few days later in a taxi?
(a) If she will travel back to the States to get some books he needs.
(b) If she has been to the Alps.
(c) If she will quit working with him.
(d) If she wants to be his lover.

3. About what does Margot inadvertently learn while the train is traveling through France?
(a) The propensity of Italian men to pinch women.
(b) Intimate details about two American women.
(c) The bank heist by a man in the next car over.
(d) The acts of an embezzler in her train car.

4. What is neither great nor terrible that Margot experiences?
(a) The drawings she makes of the canal system in Venice.
(b) The work she does translating.
(c) Being lovers with Professor Chapin.
(d) The drawings she makes of several pictures in the Louvre.

5. Who does Margot tell Postiglione came up with the drying process?
(a) A taxi driver.
(b) No one; they have not yet solved the problem.
(c) Herself.
(d) Professor Chapin.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Margot once live in this city?

2. What does the train conductor tell Margot a bit later?

3. What will happen when Margot goes to Italy?

4. What invitation does Margot decline?

5. What does Margot do while riding the train?

(see the answer key)

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