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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leda recall Bianca doing when she was 5 and Leda was working on an essay?
(a) Slapping her on the ear.
(b) Screaming in her ear.
(c) Coloring all over her work.
(d) Tearing up her work.

2. What does Nina jab Leda with in her apartment at the end of the novel?
(a) A pinecone.
(b) Her keys.
(c) A hat pin.
(d) A knife.

3. What would Lucilla do if Bianca and Marta were too immersed in a game to play with Lucilla?
(a) She would sit with Leda and talk.
(b) She would go to her room and sulk.
(c) She would admonish them for being selfish.
(d) She would point out their flaws.

4. Why is Leda angry at herself the morning after Giovanni came to her apartment?
(a) She left the doll out for him to see.
(b) She did not offer him dessert.
(c) She drank too much.
(d) She forgot to pay him for the food.

5. What does Elena tell Leda about her doll?
(a) She is blind.
(b) She has a broken leg.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is scared.

6. What does Nina say to her husband when she sees him at the fair?
(a) She tells him its his turn to watch Elena.
(b) She asked why he cannot leave her alone.
(c) She says she did not want to see him.
(d) She says she is happy he came early.

7. Where did Gianni's family have a home to which they often vacationed when the girls were young?
(a) Palermo.
(b) Calabrese.
(c) Florence.
(d) Naples.

8. Who gave Professor Hardy Leda's essay?
(a) Leda sent it to him.
(b) Brenda.
(c) Gianni.
(d) Leda's professor.

9. Who does Leda notice at the fair just before Nina leaves her?
(a) Marta and Bianca.
(b) Giovanni.
(c) Rosaria and Toni.
(d) Gino.

10. Why did Leda return to her family after she was gone for two months when the girls were young?
(a) To get her things.
(b) To sign divorce papers.
(c) To take the girls with her.
(d) To beg Gianni to take her back.

11. What does Leda feel "reduced her to rotting matter without life" (75)?
(a) Her job.
(b) Parenthood.
(c) Her second pregnancy.
(d) Her marriage.

12. What does Leda tell Nina she felt "more useless and desperate without...than with" (72)?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her work.
(d) Her daughters.

13. What does Leda bring to the beach with her the morning after she took sleeping pills and slept well in Chapter 18?
(a) Her old doll Mina.
(b) Two bottles of wine.
(c) The doll and the new clothes.
(d) Homemade brownies.

14. Who walks Leda home after the dance party in Chapter 23?
(a) Gino.
(b) Giovanni.
(c) Nina.
(d) Toni.

15. What did Leda do when Marta came to her for comfort after Lucilla left her out of a game?
(a) She yelled at Marta for getting sand all over her.
(b) She invented a game to play with Marta.
(c) She read to Marta and rocked her to sleep.
(d) She yelled at Lucilla for being cruel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leda tell Nina she should do with her life?

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

3. What does Leda say she lived with during the three years she was away from her daughters?

4. What does Leda remind Nina she had said as Leda is discussing allowing Nina to use her apartment with Gino?

5. How did Leda's professor convince her to go to the conference he invited her to when her children were young?

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