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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the wound on Leda's left side described in Chapter 1?
(a) A tiny scrape.
(b) An inexplicable lesion.
(c) An enormous gash.
(d) A bizarre bruise.

2. What type of insect does Leda find on her pillow when trying to sleep the first night in her apartment?
(a) Fly.
(b) Spider.
(c) Cicada.
(d) Mosquito.

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

4. 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) Escape.
(d) Other men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Leda wake up at the start of The Lost Daughter?

2. Who told Leda she was “less distracted, more generous” (7) after her children moved?

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

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

5. How old does Leda think the pregnant member of the Neapolitan family is?

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