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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 catacombs under the sacristy.
(c) Some statues.
(d) A secret compartment.

2. What history does the abbess recount to Margot?
(a) The history of books.
(b) The history of dogma.
(c) The history of the convent.
(d) The history of religion.

3. What signs does Margot see in the city?
(a) Of the discontent of the foreign workers.
(b) The damage from the flood.
(c) Of the widespread unemployment.
(d) Of the damage done by rioters.

4. Who is Margeaux?
(a) Margot's alter ego.
(b) Margot's mother's name.
(c) Margot's aunt after whom Margot is named.
(d) The name Margot calls her twin who was born first and dies before Margot is born.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Margot decide to stay?

4. Why does Margot's father break down and cry years after her mother dies?

5. About what does Margot inadvertently learn while the train is traveling through France?

(see the answer key)

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