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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Valeria find when she searches Mirella's room?
(a) Mirella's diary.
(b) Nothing of importance.
(c) A new dress.
(d) Letters from Sandro.

2. What does Valeria remember seeing through the window bars at school?
(a) The boys playing soccer in the field.
(b) A man being arrested for stealing a bicycle.
(c) An assault.
(d) The fascists passing in their black shirts.

3. Who did Michele describe as a saint?
(a) His mother-in-law.
(b) Clara.
(c) Valeria.
(d) His mother.

4. What is Valeria's mother always working on?
(a) The garden.
(b) Sweaters for the children.
(c) Embroidery.
(d) Cooking.

5. When Riccardo says he has heard Valeria walking around late at night and asks what she has been doing, what is her excuse?
(a) Tidying the kitchen.
(b) Writing in her diary.
(c) Insomnia.
(d) Finishing the ironing.

6. Where was the director when he went away for two days?
(a) Milan.
(b) Venice.
(c) Turin.
(d) New York.

7. What does Mirella say about money?
(a) Valeria needs to be smarter in handling it.
(b) It makes everything possible.
(c) It's the only thing she cares about.
(d) The poor should never see it close up.

8. What does Riccardo say at dinner that starts an argument with Mirella?
(a) Women cannot understand finances.
(b) Women should not work in offices.
(c) Women should not go to the movies alone.
(d) There can be no friendship between a man and a woman.

9. What does Mirella tell Valeria she respects?
(a) God.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Herself.
(d) The authority of the family.

10. What does Valeria learn about Sandro from Guido?
(a) He was getting engaged.
(b) He was married.
(c) He was arrested.
(d) He was moving away.

11. What does Mirella show Valeria, when she calls her mother to her room?
(a) An envelope of bills.
(b) The book she is studying.
(c) A letter from Sandro.
(d) Her diary.

12. What does Valeria hug for comfort after Sandro leaves her office?
(a) Guido's raincoat.
(b) A picture of her family.
(c) The notebook.
(d) The key to her drawer.

13. What is the color of the coat that Valeria wears?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Gray.

14. How does Clara describe Michele's script in talking to Valeria?
(a) Suggestive of a hidden well of anger.
(b) Dark in plot but containing wonderful ideas.
(c) Delightfully light in tone.
(d) Demonstrating enthusiasm but ultimately amateurish.

15. What does Mirella say she did with her diary?
(a) Hid it somewhere where Valeria would never find it.
(b) Destroyed it.
(c) Gave it to Sabina to keep.
(d) Took it to the office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clara say to Valeria about happiness?

2. When the director calls the office, what is the reason he cannot come?

3. What was Sandro's wife named?

4. What does Valeria intend to borrow from Clara?

5. After Easter, what new element does Valeria notice in her relationship with Guido?

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