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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Leda apologizes to Rosaria for not moving, what does Rosaria say is not always good for people?
(a) Parties.
(b) Cake.
(c) The sea.
(d) Reading.

2. Who does the Neapolitan family on the beach remind Leda of when she first notices them in Chapter 4?
(a) Her ex-husband's family.
(b) Some of her students.
(c) Her neighbors back home.
(d) Her own family.

3. Who is Rosaria?
(a) Nina's daughter.
(b) Elena's cousin.
(c) The pregnant woman.
(d) Nina's mother-in-law.

4. How old is Rosaria?
(a) 51.
(b) 42.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

5. Why did Gino ask Leda to ask a group of bathers to move for the Neapolitans?
(a) Gino felt that Leda owed them a favor.
(b) Gino was too busy to ask them himself.
(c) They did not speak Italian.
(d) The group did not like the Neapolitans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Leda recall in Chapter 3 as having a tendency to fall “in love with lean, nervous boys” (11)?

2. Before Leda left the beach at the start of Chapter 7, what did the pregnant woman tell her she was celebrating?

3. Whose "gentle cadence" (13) did Nina's voice remind Leda?

4. What is the daughter of the young Neapolitan mother's name?

5. Who is the author of The Lost Daughter?

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