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

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

3. How does Margot manage to get back on the train?
(a) Someone pulls the emergency stop cord.
(b) She yells just as the conductor is about to signal the all-clear to the engineer.
(c) She jumps and the young man she saw earlier grabs her hands.
(d) The conductor pulls her up onto the car as the train is barely moving.

4. Where does Margot stay?
(a) The Hilton.
(b) Pension Medici.
(c) Pension Grazi.
(d) Her out-of-twon friend's flat.

5. What shocks Margot while she is still in the abbess' office?
(a) That the abbess was a young widow when she becomes a nun.
(b) The graphic images of a book she opens.
(c) That the abbess is unhappy about the bishop.
(d) That the postulates can still decide to quit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Margot meet one day later than originally scheduled?

2. How have the bookshelves been damaged?

3. What does the abbess in response to Margot's reply to the challenge?

4. What does Madre Badessa ask Margot to do?

5. What does Margot do while riding the train?

(see the answer key)

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