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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Leda drag her daughters to a pay phone when she returned from the conference?
(a) To call Gianni when she was locked out of her apartment.
(b) To call Professor Hardy.
(c) They could not afford their home phone anymore.
(d) To call her mother and ask if the girls could live with her.

2. What does Giovanni bring to Leda's apartment at the start of Chapter 20?
(a) A bottle of wine.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A new dress.
(d) Fish.

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

4. 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 leave her daughters.
(c) She could not afford it.
(d) Her husband would never let her.

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

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

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

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

9. 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 never told her they were married.
(d) They said they married too young.

10. What does Leda buy for Nina and Elena at the fair?
(a) An ice cream.
(b) A new doll.
(c) A hat pin.
(d) A blanket.

11. Who does Leda watch "in the distance" (75) at the beach at the start of Chapter 23?
(a) Nina.
(b) Gino.
(c) Elena.
(d) Toni.

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

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

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

15. 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 missed her everyday.
(c) They did not remember.
(d) They could never forgive her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Leda say when Nina asks why she left her daughters?

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

4. What did Leda do after Bianca interrupted her while she was writing an essay when Bianca was 5?

5. What does Leda see in the woods after she dials the number on the flyer in Chapter 18?

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