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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Margot manage to get back on the train?
(a) The conductor pulls her up onto the car as the train is barely moving.
(b) Someone pulls the emergency stop cord.
(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. What happens to the taxi in which Margot is riding?
(a) Its radiator boils over.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It gets a flat tire.
(d) The driver crashes it into a car in front of him.

3. Who is Margot hesitant to contact?
(a) Alessandro.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her boss in the United States.
(d) The Professor.

4. Where does Margot decide to stay?
(a) With an old friend.
(b) In a hotel chain.
(c) In a boarding house.
(d) At the YWCA.

5. What does the conductor reveal to the two women in Margot's compartment?
(a) Nothing.
(b) That Margot is a wealthy heiress.
(c) That Margot is meeting her father in Italy.
(d) That Margot is American.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Margot do while riding the train?

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

3. Where does Margot stay?

4. Who introduces herself to Margot as she is exploring?

5. How does Margot replenish the supplies she needs for the library work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the cassette tapes when Margot's mother is dying?

2. Why are two of the postulants in trouble?

3. Who is Margeaux, and describe a scene that Margeaux is good at.

4. What do Margot and Madre Badessa discuss concerning the nuns' vows?

5. What did Alessandro do on the day of the November 4th flood?

6. How does Margot first offend two American travelers on the train and then bond with them?

7. About what does Margot become curious while working at the convent, and what does she learn?

8. Describe the scene when the taxi gets a flat tire.

9. How does Margot react to the book that the postulants keep over night, and what is Madre Badessa's reaction?

10. Describe Margot's discussion of the library with Madre Badessa.

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