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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ominous warning sign does Elena imagine as she drives at the start of the novel?
(a) Dark clouds.
(b) Red flag.
(c) A black cat.
(d) A dead bird.

2. Whose "gentle cadence" (13) did Nina's voice remind Leda?
(a) Leda's lover.
(b) Leda's mother.
(c) Leda's husband.
(d) Leda's daughter.

3. What does Leda learn happened when she wakes at the start of the novel?
(a) Her daughter died.
(b) She lost her job.
(c) She drove into a guardrail.
(d) She nearly drowned.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leda dislike about the way Nina and Elena play with the doll?

2. What does Leda do instead, after having the urge to tell Nina and Elena they do not know how to play?

3. Who does the Neapolitan family on the beach remind Leda of when she first notices them in Chapter 4?

4. What is the young Neapolitan mother's name?

5. What is the daughter of the young Neapolitan mother's name?

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