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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Volmaro say he is being generous?
(a) His agreement to wait for two weeks until Margot makes up her mind.
(b) His descriptions of the conditions in North Africa during the war.
(c) The price he is offering for Margot's book.
(d) The price he heaps on Sandro.

2. What does Father Francisco make clear to everyone?
(a) He believes the nuns are wrong to have a library.
(b) He is requesting a new assignment.
(c) He does not want to be disturbed unnecessarily.
(d) He is traveling out of town and the ill nun will have to have another priest.

3. 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 wants to be his lover.
(d) If she will quit working with him.

4. How does Margot attempt to fool the Bishop?
(a) By sending him an inexpensive pornographic book.
(b) By telling him Sister Agata dies before confessing.
(c) She does not attempt to fool the Bishop.
(d) By telling him that Alessandro is in London.

5. How does Margot create income for herself?
(a) Working in a small cafe.
(b) Working with students in Certosa.
(c) Painting tourists' pictures.
(d) Photographing tourists.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Sandro think Margot is in love?

2. What history does the abbess recount to Margot?

3. Who is Professor Eugene Chapin?

4. What will happen when Margot goes to Italy?

5. What does Margot learn one day when she returns to the convent after one of her forays?

(see the answer key)

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