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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Leda give to Nina while she is in her apartment at the end of the story?
2. Who walks Leda home after the dance party in Chapter 23?
3. What does Gino say Nina wants him to ask of Leda?
4. Why did Leda return to her family after she was gone for two months when the girls were young?
5. With whom did Gianni have an affair after he and Leda split up?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Nina use to harm Leda at the end of the novel? What does Leda say when her daughters call?
2. What life changing thing happened when Leda attended the E.M. Forster conference?
3. Who does Nina think stole Elena's doll?
4. What does Leda ask Elena when she bumps into her family outside the toy store in Chapter 14? How does Elena respond? What does Rosaria say should happen to the person who took Elena's doll?
5. In what way was Leda's first pregnancy different from her mother's and other relative's?
6. What happens when Leda goes to the movies in Chapter 23?
7. In what way does Leda feel she and Brenda are similar in Chapter 24?
8. Who is Lucilla? How did Leda's daughters feel about Lucilla? How did Leda feel about Lucilla?
9. What would Lucilla do if Bianca and Marta did not want to play with her?
10. What was Leda reminded of while watching Nani spew brown liquid into the sink in Chapter 22?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Ferrante's decision to tell the story using first-person point-of-view from Leda's perspective. How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about the author of The Lost Daughter. Who is she? What else has she written? How is The Lost Daughter similar or different from her previous works?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay describing the imagery used in The Lost Daughter. Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.
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