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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 Leda go shopping for at the start of Chapter 14?
(a) A new doll for Elena.
(b) A new dress for Nani.
(c) A watch for Gino.
(d) A scarf for Nina.

2. What does Gino tell Leda they will need to give to Giovanni to keep their secret?
(a) A pack of cigarettes.
(b) A few pounds of fish.
(c) A bottle of wine.
(d) 10 Euros.

3. What does Giovanni describe, which Leda called a pupatella?
(a) Sugar wrapped in a rag for a crying child to suck.
(b) Another word for a baby bottle.
(c) A term for a swaddled baby.
(d) A special snack Italian grandmothers often made.

4. What does Toni say to Leda when he sees her at the fair?
(a) He asks her to keep away from his wife.
(b) He asks if she is the one who stole the doll.
(c) He is happy Nina has found a friend.
(d) It is nice that she has nothing to do.

5. What reason does Rosaria give to Leda for Nina and Elena's absence from the beach in Chapter 18?
(a) Elena has a fever.
(b) Nina has a sunburn.
(c) They went home early.
(d) Toni does not want them to go there anymore.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Leda annoyed at the movie she attends in Chapter 23?

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

4. How does Leda feel she looks when she arrives at her apartment after thinking she is being followed in Chapter 23?

5. What excuse did Leda give to her professor when he invited her to a conference?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did meeting the hitchhikers change Leda?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. What memory does Leda recall from when Bianca was 5 and Marta was 3 and she was trying to write an essay?

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