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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. How does Marina regularly behave when she comes to the Cossatis' home?
(a) She laughs at all of Michele's jokes.
(b) She says very little.
(c) She is dismissive of everything she sees.
(d) She follows Valeria around.

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

3. What does Valeria intend to borrow from Clara?
(a) A book.
(b) A suitcase.
(c) Some materials for Michele's writing.
(d) A hat.

4. What causes Valeria to mutter "Thieves, murdering thieves" (123) to herself?
(a) Talk of another war.
(b) The director's check to his wife's furrier.
(c) Bertolotti, the estate manager.
(d) A business letter.

5. Where does Valeria's aunt live?
(a) Verona.
(b) Venice.
(c) Vicenza.
(d) Padua.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sees Valeria and Guido standing close together?

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

3. What does Valeria order at the café with Guido?

4. Who does Valeria urge to advise Mirella on her relationship with Sandro?

5. What did Valeria study?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Mirella respond when Valeria asks her to bring Riccardo his eggs?

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

5. What does Mirella say to Valeria about authority?

6. What does Guido tell Valeria he has been afraid of?

7. Why does Mirella say she would like to hear that Valeria enjoys her work?

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

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

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

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