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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14 - 19 .

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Leda do when the pregnant Neapolitan woman suggested Leda move to accommodate them in Chapter 6?
(a) She spit on them.
(b) She sternly said no.
(c) She apologized and said of course.
(d) She grabbed her things and left.

3. Who does Gino say Nina's family blames for Elena's lost doll?
(a) Elena.
(b) Nina.
(c) Leda.
(d) Rosaria.

4. What is Leda angry at herself for discussing at the start of Chapter 15?
(a) Her divorce.
(b) The years she left her daughters.
(c) Her current mental anguish.
(d) Her work to much.

5. Why did Gino ask Leda to ask a group of bathers to move for the Neapolitans?
(a) They did not speak Italian.
(b) The group did not like the Neapolitans.
(c) Gino felt that Leda owed them a favor.
(d) Gino was too busy to ask them himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosaria say should happen to the person who took Elena's doll?

2. 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?

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

4. What does Leda go shopping for at the start of Chapter 14?

5. Why did the hitchhiking couple leave their families behind?

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