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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leda dislike about the way Nina and Elena play with the doll?
(a) The way they fight over the doll.
(b) They are getting the doll wet and dirty.
(c) The voices they use.
(d) The fact that the doll in makes.

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

3. What is the name of the person who greeted Leda when she arrived at her vacation apartment?
(a) Riccardo.
(b) Alessandro.
(c) Gianni.
(d) Giovanni.

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

5. Whose "gentle cadence" (13) did Nina's voice remind Leda?
(a) Leda's daughter.
(b) Leda's mother.
(c) Leda's lover.
(d) Leda's husband.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Leda learn happened when she wakes at the start of the novel?

3. How old does Leda think the daughter of the young Neapolitan woman must be?

4. How is the wound on Leda's left side described in Chapter 1?

5. What does Leda think was the only thing the young Neapolitan mother desired as she watched her and her daughter play in the water in Chapter 4?

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