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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Leda's oldest daughter's name?
(a) Bianca.
(b) Marta.
(c) Nina.
(d) Mina.

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

3. What type of insect does Leda find on her pillow when trying to sleep the first night in her apartment?
(a) Cicada.
(b) Fly.
(c) Spider.
(d) Mosquito.

4. What does Elena call her doll?
(a) Mommy.
(b) Baby.
(c) Nani.
(d) Gannie.

5. What does Leda tell Rosaria is "always a cause for worry" (20)?
(a) Children.
(b) Work.
(c) Money.
(d) Spouses.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why did Leda throw away the tray of fruit that awaited her in her vacation apartment?

4. Whose eyes does Leda realize she had been viewing the world through more than her own?

5. Who tells Leda over the phone that Canada is “an uninhabitable country, both winter and summer” (21).

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