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

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

3. On the day that convinces Valeria that the director loves her, what does he leave on her desk?
(a) A mimosa branch.
(b) A tulip.
(c) A hawthorn branch.
(d) A rose.

4. Where was the war that broke out right after Valeria's birth?
(a) Algeria.
(b) Tunisia.
(c) Libya.
(d) Morocco.

5. What picture did Valeria have of Sandro prior to meeting him?
(a) Predatory.
(b) Cynical, perhaps arrogant.
(c) Polite firmness.
(d) Serene confidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Valeria hug for comfort after Sandro leaves her office?

2. What does the director say when he hears Valeria had thought of coming to the office on Saturday but did not want to disturb him?

3. What did Guido send Valeria the previous Easter?

4. What does Valeria whisper to herself as she walks home after talking with the director?

5. When Riccardo says he has heard Valeria walking around late at night and asks what she has been doing, what is her excuse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mirella say to Valeria about authority?

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

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

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

9. What does Clara say about working women?

10. How has Michele's opinion of Clara changed?

(see the answer keys)

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