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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leda remind Nina she had said as Leda is discussing allowing Nina to use her apartment with Gino?
(a) Nina had said she was happy with her husband.
(b) Nina had said she could not stand Elena.
(c) Nina had said Gino was a fool.
(d) Nina had said she was afraid of Toni.

2. What does Nina say has happened to Elena since she lost her doll?
(a) She refuses to eat.
(b) She has regressed.
(c) She seems more grown up.
(d) She has stopped speaking.

3. What did Leda do when Marta came to her for comfort after Lucilla left her out of a game?
(a) She read to Marta and rocked her to sleep.
(b) She yelled at Marta for getting sand all over her.
(c) She invented a game to play with Marta.
(d) She yelled at Lucilla for being cruel.

4. What did Leda's husband tell her when she called him after Professor Hardy's speech?
(a) He told her Marta had chicken pox.
(b) He told her he needed her home immediately.
(c) He told her their babysitter did not show up.
(d) He told her Bianca had the flu.

5. How long after she met the hitchhikers did Leda leave her family?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 1 year.

6. Who does Nina yell at for trying to intervene with one of Elena's tantrums in Chapter 23?
(a) Rosaria.
(b) Toni.
(c) Leda.
(d) Giovanni.

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

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

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

10. What does Leda tell Nina she should do with her life?
(a) Accept her role as wife and mother.
(b) Take some time away from her family to figure out what she wants.
(c) Go back to University.
(d) Have affairs but do not get caught.

11. What would Leda's daughters say whenever she tried to discuss the years she left them?
(a) They loved living with their father.
(b) They did not remember.
(c) They could never forgive her.
(d) They missed her everyday.

12. Why was Leda upset that Gianni picked up hitchhikers on the ride to their vacation home?
(a) They refused to use a map.
(b) The hitchhikers looked scary.
(c) She was already busy with their young daughters.
(d) The blasted music.

13. How old is Giovanni?
(a) 22.
(b) 50.
(c) 69.
(d) 45.

14. What surprised Leda during Professor Hardy's speech at the conference she attended with her professor?
(a) Professor Hardy was extremely nervous.
(b) Professor Hardy was incredibly handsome.
(c) Professor Hardy seemed less intelligent than she imagined.
(d) Professor Hardy quoted her paper.

15. What does Gino tell Leda they will need to give to Giovanni to keep their secret?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) 10 Euros.
(c) A few pounds of fish.
(d) A pack of cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toni say to Leda when he sees her at the fair?

2. In what way does Leda feel Rosaria and Toni resemble one another?

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

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

5. What does Leda give to Nina while she is in her apartment at the end of the story?

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