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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Leda annoyed at the movie she attends in Chapter 23?
(a) The movie is boring.
(b) A group of loud boys enter.
(c) She has to sit in the back and cannot see well.
(d) A man next to her is eating loudly.

2. Where did Leda go for two months the first time she left her family?
(a) Greece.
(b) America.
(c) Canada.
(d) England.

3. Who is Corrado?
(a) Leda's lover.
(b) Bianca's professor.
(c) Rosaria's husband.
(d) Marta's boyfriend.

4. What does Nina do just before telling Leda she has to leave after meeting her at the fair?
(a) Gives her a hug.
(b) Kisses her on the lips.
(c) Begs her not to tell Toni about Gino.
(d) Asks her to take Elena.

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

6. Who dances with "a serious intensity" (79) at a dancing party in Chapter 23?
(a) Rosaria.
(b) Nina.
(c) Giovanni.
(d) Gino.

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

8. What does Toni say to Leda when he sees her at the fair?
(a) He asks if she is the one who stole the doll.
(b) He asks her to keep away from his wife.
(c) He is happy Nina has found a friend.
(d) It is nice that she has nothing to do.

9. What does Leda feel "reduced her to rotting matter without life" (75)?
(a) Her second pregnancy.
(b) Her job.
(c) Parenthood.
(d) Her marriage.

10. What would Lucilla do if Bianca and Marta were too immersed in a game to play with Lucilla?
(a) She would sit with Leda and talk.
(b) She would point out their flaws.
(c) She would go to her room and sulk.
(d) She would admonish them for being selfish.

11. What does Rosaria say should happen to the person who took Elena's doll?
(a) They should have to take care of a crying three year old for life.
(b) They should get brain cancer.
(c) They should drown in the ocean.
(d) They should get struck by lighting.

12. What does Leda recall Bianca doing when she was 5 and Leda was working on an essay?
(a) Coloring all over her work.
(b) Tearing up her work.
(c) Screaming in her ear.
(d) Slapping her on the ear.

13. Why is Nina upset to learn her husband is at the fair at the start of Chapter 22?
(a) He will blame her for Elena's mood.
(b) She had told him not to come back.
(c) He was not supposed to be there until the next day.
(d) She thinks he is stalking her.

14. Why does Leda decide against calling her daughters at the start of Chapter 24?
(a) She feels they would only unload a list of demands.
(b) She has the feeling they do not want to hear from her anymore.
(c) She thinks it is too late and does not want to wake them.
(d) She worries they will make her talk to their father.

15. Why was Gianni upset with Leda when she returned from her conference?
(a) She spent too much money while she was away.
(b) She came back with a heir of superiority.
(c) She barely called despite having a sick child.
(d) She did not tell him she would be gone for so long.

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 does Elena tell Leda about her doll?

3. What does Nina jab Leda with in her apartment at the end of the novel?

4. Why did Leda return to her family after she was gone for two months when the girls were young?

5. What does Leda tell Nina she felt "more useless and desperate without...than with" (72)?

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