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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 does Margot discover about the nuns?
(a) They work in silence.
(b) They are all from Rome.
(c) They sing while working.
(d) They are all elderly.

2. When does Lucia live?
(a) The early 20th century.
(b) The early 17th century.
(c) The early 18th century.
(d) The late 19th century.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the professor ask Margot a few days later in a taxi?

5. What poem does Margot remember as she realizes she has been left stranded?

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