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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Leda tell her daughters whey they say she should have called to tell them she is alive?
(a) I'm alive and well.
(b) I'm gravely injured, but I'll live.
(c) I'm dead, but fine.
(d) I don't know anymore.

4. What does Leda bring to the beach with her the morning after she took sleeping pills and slept well in Chapter 18?
(a) The doll and the new clothes.
(b) Homemade brownies.
(c) Her old doll Mina.
(d) Two bottles of wine.

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

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

7. How old is Giovanni's oldest son?
(a) 13.
(b) 35.
(c) 22.
(d) 50.

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

9. In what way does Leda feel Rosaria and Toni resemble one another?
(a) They have beautiful faces.
(b) They are tall and slender.
(c) They are weak and scrawny.
(d) They have solid, firm bodies.

10. How does Giovanni look as he stands near Nina's family at the dance party in Chapter 23?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Weak.
(c) Proud.
(d) Intimidating.

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

12. Why would Leda's daughters ask her to leave the apartment when they were teenagers?
(a) So she did not embarrass them in front of their friends.
(b) To have sex with boyfriends.
(c) So they could study in peace.
(d) To throw parties.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who calls Leda while she is at the fair rummaging through clothes and antiques?

3. How old is Giovanni?

4. What did Leda say to her daughters after she returned to them and they did poorly in school?

5. Where did Leda go for two months the first time she left her family?

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