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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 Clara offer Valeria after lunch?
(a) A glass of wine.
(b) Chocolates from a box.
(c) American cigarettes.
(d) Marital advice.

2. How old is Clara?
(a) 47.
(b) 32.
(c) 43.
(d) 35.

3. On what occasion does Guido walk Valeria to church?
(a) Ash Wednesday.
(b) Easter Sunday.
(c) Holy Thursday.
(d) Good Friday.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michele do after drying Valeria's eyes with his handkerchief?

2. Why does Riccardo want to know about the family's monthly expenses?

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

4. What does Valeria find when she searches Mirella's room?

5. What does Valeria rediscover in Michele's old letters?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Valeria say when Michele expresses worry that the threat of war will make the movie producers afraid?

6. What does Clara say about working women?

7. Why does Valeria not like Marina?

8. What does Valeria remember happening one night when she sat up late with Mirella when she was little?

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

10. When does Valeria think her anxiety started? What does she attribute it to?

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