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

2. What did Valeria study?
(a) Culinary arts.
(b) Literature, music, and art history.
(c) Domestic economics.
(d) Forensic medicine.

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

4. What did Valeria's father do when he heard there would be war?
(a) Talked angrily about the government.
(b) Rushed into town to enlist.
(c) Drank in celebration.
(d) Cleaned his revolver.

5. What is Riccardo's treatment of Marina like in front of Valeria?
(a) Gentle and kind.
(b) Timid and quiet.
(c) Anxious to please.
(d) Authoritarian and aggressive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sees Valeria and Guido standing close together?

2. Where was the director when he went away for two days?

3. What does Clara say to Valeria about happiness?

4. What do Michele and Riccardo study together at night?

5. On the day when Valeria and Guido walk through the city together, what color are many women wearing?

Short Essay Questions

1. In his letters from Africa, what plans did Michele propose?

2. What personal checks does the director ask Valeria to deal with, and how does she react?

3. What does Clara tell Valeria about Michele's film?

4. When the children's friends visit, how do they respond to Valeria?

5. Why does Valeria not like Marina?

6. How does Valeria's mother behave at the Easter lunch?

7. What does Clara, who has always said she cannot live without love, now say about it?

8. Describe Guido and Valeria's walk to San Carlo church.

9. Why, thinks Valeria, can Michele not really see her anymore?

10. Why does Sandro say it is hard for Valeria to understand her daughter?

(see the answer keys)

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