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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Margot's father break down and cry years after her mother dies?
(a) The tapes she recorded did not have anything on them.
(b) Margot's sister reveals Margot's mother's infidelity to him.
(c) His second wife leaves him.
(d) Margot's brother is killed.

3. Who are the Mud Angels?
(a) People who search the mud for valuables to sell.
(b) Young people helping with the flood.
(c) The dark-skinned children in the playground.
(d) What Margot calls young children making mud pies outside her flat.

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

5. Why is Margot's mother ecstatic after Margot's visit to Villa I Tatti?
(a) Margot is accepted into Oxford.
(b) Margot is accepted into Harvard.
(c) Margot becomes pregnant.
(d) Margot becomes engaged.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Madre Badessa ask Margot to do?

3. Where does Margot finally disembark for good?

4. What has been discovered in the library?

5. What signs does Margot see in the city?

(see the answer key)

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