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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. What does Rosaria say should happen to the person who took Elena's doll?
(a) They should get brain cancer.
(b) They should have to take care of a crying three year old for life.
(c) They should drown in the ocean.
(d) They should get struck by lighting.

2. What does Leda say when Nina asks why she left her daughters?
(a) She loved them too much.
(b) Gianni kicked her out.
(c) She did not think she was a good mother to them.
(d) She could not stand them.

3. What does Leda tell Nina you have to do sometimes "in order not to die" (43)?
(a) Escape.
(b) Fight.
(c) Scream.
(d) Lie.

4. What did Leda's husband tell her when she called him after Professor Hardy's speech?
(a) He told her their babysitter did not show up.
(b) He told her Bianca had the flu.
(c) He told her he needed her home immediately.
(d) He told her Marta had chicken pox.

5. Who dances with "a serious intensity" (79) at a dancing party in Chapter 23?
(a) Gino.
(b) Giovanni.
(c) Rosaria.
(d) Nina.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after she met the hitchhikers did Leda leave her family?

2. What does Gino say Nina wants him to ask of Leda?

3. What does Leda tell her daughters whey they say she should have called to tell them she is alive?

4. What does Nina tell Leda she wants when they discuss whether she really wants to use Nina's apartment to be with Gino?

5. What does Leda recall marry men with whom she had affairs telling her at the start of Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nina talk to Leda about when they meet at the fair in Chapter 21?

2. What does Nina use to harm Leda at the end of the novel? What does Leda say when her daughters call?

3. How did Leda treat Marta during vacation when she sought comfort from her mother when Lucilla and Bianca left her out of a game?

4. What happens to Leda during lunch in her apartment with Giovanni? How does Giovanni try to help?

5. What happens when Leda goes to the movies in Chapter 23?

6. What does Leda remind Nina that she had told her when discussing what she did in the woods with Gino?

7. With whom did Leda begin an affair during the E.M. Forster conference?

8. Why is Nina upset when she sees her husband at the start of Chapter 22 while she is at the fair talking with Leda? How does she act when she greets him?

9. Why does Leda avoid the beach at the start of Chapter 14? What does she buy instead? Who does Leda bump into while shopping? What are they shopping for?

10. What did Leda tell her husband about Lucilla when they returned from their vacation with Lucilla and Mateo?

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