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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 5 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Leda wake up at the start of The Lost Daughter?
(a) Her apartment.
(b) Her hotel room.
(c) Her mother's home.
(d) A hospital.

2. Who does Leda recall in Chapter 3 as having a tendency to fall “in love with lean, nervous boys” (11)?
(a) Leda as a young girl.
(b) Marta.
(c) Bianca.
(d) Leda's sister.

3. What is the young Neapolitan mother's name?
(a) Nina.
(b) Lela.
(c) Nora.
(d) Nala.

4. What is the daughter of the young Neapolitan mother's name?
(a) Lila.
(b) Eloise.
(c) Elena.
(d) Lina.

5. Why did Leda throw away the tray of fruit that awaited her in her vacation apartment?
(a) They made her feel sick.
(b) She hated fruit.
(c) Some of it was rotten.
(d) She thought it might be poisoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the person who greeted Leda when she arrived at her vacation apartment?

2. Who is the author of The Lost Daughter?

3. How old does Leda think the young mother in the Neapolitan family is?

4. What does Leda do instead, after having the urge to tell Nina and Elena they do not know how to play?

5. What ominous warning sign does Elena imagine as she drives at the start of the novel?

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