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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 5 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Leda wake up at the start of The Lost Daughter?
(a) A hospital.
(b) Her hotel room.
(c) Her mother's home.
(d) Her apartment.

2. Why did Leda throw away the tray of fruit that awaited her in her vacation apartment?
(a) She thought it might be poisoned.
(b) She hated fruit.
(c) They made her feel sick.
(d) Some of it was rotten.

3. What does Leda think was the only thing the young Neapolitan mother desired as she watched her and her daughter play in the water in Chapter 4?
(a) Her child.
(b) The sun.
(c) Other men.
(d) Escape.

4. Who does Leda recall in Chapter 3 as having a tendency to fall “in love with lean, nervous boys” (11)?
(a) Marta.
(b) Bianca.
(c) Leda as a young girl.
(d) Leda's sister.

5. What does Leda do instead, after having the urge to tell Nina and Elena they do not know how to play?
(a) She packs her things in a fury and leaves.
(b) She dips her feet in the water.
(c) She reads and stops watching them.
(d) She goes to the bar for a drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose eyes does Leda realize she had been viewing the world through more than her own?

2. What does Leda learn happened when she wakes at the start of the novel?

3. What did Leda's mother often threaten to do when Leda was young?

4. Where does Leda's ex husband live?

5. Who is the author of The Lost Daughter?

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