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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 22 - 25 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what way does Leda feel she is to Nina what Brenda was to her?
(a) She can help Nina's career.
(b) Leda is lost like Brenda.
(c) Nina took her in for a night.
(d) She represents freedom from her life.

2. Whose eyes does Leda realize she had been viewing the world through more than her own?
(a) Her students.
(b) Her daughters.
(c) Her ex husbands.
(d) Her mothers.

3. Who tells Leda over the phone that Canada is “an uninhabitable country, both winter and summer” (21).
(a) Bianca.
(b) Giovanni.
(c) Gianni.
(d) Marta.

4. What is the daughter of the young Neapolitan mother's name?
(a) Lila.
(b) Eloise.
(c) Lina.
(d) Elena.

5. What does Leda see in the woods after she dials the number on the flyer in Chapter 18?
(a) Toni kissing a housekeeper.
(b) Nina and Corrado kissing.
(c) Toni and Giovanni kissing.
(d) Gino and Nina kissing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leda tell her daughters whey they say she should have called to tell them she is alive?

2. What happened after Leda and Professor Hardy had dinner after the conference?

3. What did Leda sometimes do when Bianca or Marta brought boyfriends over their house?

4. How does Leda feel she looks when she arrives at her apartment after thinking she is being followed in Chapter 23?

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

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