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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 13 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Leda think about Nina when she gets a closer look at her after speaking with the Dutch family?
(a) She is even more beautiful than she thought.
(b) She is not as young or beautiful as she had thought.
(c) She appears depressed.
(d) She looks like her mother.

3. What does Leda take before heading home from the beach in Chapter 10?
(a) Nina's hat.
(b) Elena's doll.
(c) Rosaria's purse.
(d) Gino's wallet.

4. What was one reason Leda allowed her daughters to play with her as if she were a doll?
(a) She thought it was fun.
(b) It annoyed their father.
(c) Her mother never let her do that.
(d) She hated it, but was too tired to say no.

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 hated fruit.
(c) They made her feel sick.
(d) She thought it might be poisoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the wound on Leda's left side described in Chapter 1?

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

3. What did Leda make Florinda do, as remembered in Chapter 13?

4. What is Leda's profession?

5. What ominous warning sign does Elena imagine as she drives at the start of the novel?

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