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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Leda do after Bianca interrupted her while she was writing an essay when Bianca was 5?
(a) Leda told Bianca what she was writing and asked for her thoughts.
(b) Leda sent Bianca to her room.
(c) Leda gave her paper and pencil so she could pretend to work.
(d) Leda slapped Bianca.

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

4. What does Leda recall marry men with whom she had affairs telling her at the start of Chapter 19?
(a) They never told her they were married.
(b) They said they would never leave their wives.
(c) They said they would leave their wives for her.
(d) They said they married too young.

5. What does Nina say to her husband when she sees him at the fair?
(a) She asked why he cannot leave her alone.
(b) She says she did not want to see him.
(c) She says she is happy he came early.
(d) She tells him its his turn to watch Elena.

6. What are the Neapolitan children handing out on the beach when Leda arrives at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) A flyer for the missing doll.
(b) Handmade crafts.
(c) Flyers for a concert.
(d) Sunscreen.

7. What does Giovanni describe, which Leda called a pupatella?
(a) Another word for a baby bottle.
(b) A term for a swaddled baby.
(c) Sugar wrapped in a rag for a crying child to suck.
(d) A special snack Italian grandmothers often made.

8. What does Nina tell Leda she wants when they discuss whether she really wants to use Nina's apartment to be with Gino?
(a) She just wants an escape.
(b) She does not know what she wanted.
(c) She is afraid to say no to Gino.
(d) She just wants Toni to love her.

9. Why is Leda angry at herself the morning after Giovanni came to her apartment?
(a) She left the doll out for him to see.
(b) She did not offer him dessert.
(c) She forgot to pay him for the food.
(d) She drank too much.

10. With whom did Gianni have an affair after he and Leda split up?
(a) Marta's teacher.
(b) Bianca's friend's mother.
(c) Lucilla.
(d) Leda's aunt.

11. How old was Nina when she had Elena?
(a) 25.
(b) 19.
(c) 42.
(d) 31.

12. What does Nina do in the apartment which reminds Leda of her mother and grandmother?
(a) She hurls insults at Leda.
(b) She laughs and jokes.
(c) She speaks with a gentle cadence.
(d) She cooks a Neapolitan dinner.

13. What did Elena do when Leda asked if she had found her doll?
(a) She cried.
(b) She softly said no.
(c) She told Leda she took the doll.
(d) She tried to hit Leda.

14. What does Nina tell Leda Elena has been doing since her father left in Chapter 14?
(a) Crying.
(b) Refusing to speak.
(c) Torturing her.
(d) Asking when her father will return.

15. What does Leda tell Nina she felt "more useless and desperate without...than with" (72)?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her work.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her daughters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leda say she lived with during the three years she was away from her daughters?

2. Who does Leda watch "in the distance" (75) at the beach at the start of Chapter 23?

3. How long after she met the hitchhikers did Leda leave her family?

4. Why is Nina upset to learn her husband is at the fair at the start of Chapter 22?

5. Who pays for Leda's coffee at the beach house bar in Chapter 23?

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