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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What excuse did Leda give to her professor when he invited her to a conference?
(a) She could not afford it.
(b) She could not leave her daughters.
(c) She did not like that particular writer.
(d) Her husband would never let her.

2. What does Elena tell Leda about her doll?
(a) She is blind.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is scared.
(d) She has a broken leg.

3. Who is with Nina when she meets Leda at the fair?
(a) Rosaria.
(b) Elena.
(c) Toni.
(d) Gino.

4. What does Nina jab Leda with in her apartment at the end of the novel?
(a) A knife.
(b) Her keys.
(c) A pinecone.
(d) A hat pin.

5. Why did the hitchhiking couple leave their families behind?
(a) Their families disapproved of their relationship.
(b) To travel together.
(c) They were joining a cult.
(d) They robbed them.

6. Why was Leda jealous of Lucilla?
(a) Her English was better.
(b) She looked like a model.
(c) Her daughters seemed to like her more than their mother.
(d) She wore expensive jewelry.

7. What does Leda say when Nina asks why she left her daughters?
(a) She did not think she was a good mother to them.
(b) She could not stand them.
(c) Gianni kicked her out.
(d) She loved them too much.

8. What does Leda tell Nina happened to her as a mother after she returned to her daughters?
(a) She felt an irreparable distance had grown between herself and her daughters.
(b) She gave up her career entirely to focus on motherhood.
(c) She resented her daughters for ruining her career.
(d) She lived more for her daughters than for herself.

9. Why did Leda return to her family after she was gone for two months when the girls were young?
(a) To get her things.
(b) To take the girls with her.
(c) To beg Gianni to take her back.
(d) To sign divorce papers.

10. What does Leda go shopping for at the start of Chapter 14?
(a) A scarf for Nina.
(b) A new doll for Elena.
(c) A new dress for Nani.
(d) A watch for Gino.

11. What happened after Leda and Professor Hardy had dinner after the conference?
(a) They began an affair.
(b) He offered her a high paying job.
(c) He told her he would mentor her.
(d) He asked her to leave her family and run away with him.

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

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

14. What does Leda tell Rosaria and Nina when Rosaria asked what Leda's daughters were like as little girls?
(a) They were angels.
(b) She left them.
(c) Just like any other kids.
(d) They were terrors.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Giovanni bring to Leda's apartment at the start of Chapter 20?

2. What does Nina say to her husband when she sees him at the fair?

3. Who is Corrado?

4. How old was Nina when she had Elena?

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

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