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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 go shopping for at the start of Chapter 14?

2. What are the Neapolitan children handing out on the beach when Leda arrives at the end of Chapter 18?

3. What does Leda recall Bianca doing when she was 5 and Leda was working on an essay?

4. What does Leda say when Nina asks why she left her daughters?

5. What does Leda feel "reduced her to rotting matter without life" (75)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Gianni angry with Leda when she returned from the conference? How did he feel about her newfound drive to work?

2. Why does Leda decide that Elena probably put something inside of her doll? What does she find?

3. What does Leda say when Nina asked why she left her daughters?

4. Who is Lucilla? How did Leda's daughters feel about Lucilla? How did Leda feel about Lucilla?

5. How did meeting the hitchhikers change Leda?

6. Who does Nina think stole Elena's doll?

7. In what way does Leda feel she and Brenda are similar in Chapter 24?

8. In what way was Leda's first pregnancy different from her mother's and other relative's?

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

10. What did Leda's daughters say to her about the years she left them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in Ferrante of The Lost Daughter. Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the story is effective in conveying the story’s themes.

Essay Topic 2

Write a brief essay analyzing the title The Lost Daughter. Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of the story.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing the symbolic significance the Neapolitan family has on the story. What does this family represent and how do they develop the themes of the story?

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