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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 - 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Leda drag her daughters to a pay phone when she returned from the conference?
(a) To call Gianni when she was locked out of her apartment.
(b) To call Professor Hardy.
(c) They could not afford their home phone anymore.
(d) To call her mother and ask if the girls could live with her.

2. What does Leda recall marry men with whom she had affairs telling her at the start of Chapter 19?
(a) They said they would leave their wives for her.
(b) They never told her they were married.
(c) They said they married too young.
(d) They said they would never leave their wives.

3. What did Leda sometimes do when Bianca or Marta brought boyfriends over their house?
(a) She flirted with them.
(b) She was cruel to them.
(c) She told her daughters boys were not allowed in the house.
(d) She made elaborate dinners.

4. How did Marta behave after Leda's interaction with Florinda, as remembered in Chapter 13?
(a) She was thankful to Leda.
(b) She would not speak to Leda.
(c) She was furious with Florinda.
(d) She acted as if nothing happened.

5. How old is Giovanni's oldest son?
(a) 35.
(b) 50.
(c) 22.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Gino ask Leda to ask a group of bathers to move for the Neapolitans?

2. Who does Gino say Nina's family blames for Elena's lost doll?

3. What secret does Gino tell Leda he knows about Nina?

4. What was one reason Leda allowed her daughters to play with her as if she were a doll?

5. What does Leda say she lived with during the three years she was away from her daughters?

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