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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Leda find near her spot on the beach after swimming to ease her back pain at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Elena's hat.
(b) A dead cicada.
(c) Elena's doll.
(d) A wad of cash.

2. What does it appear Nina and her husband argue about at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) His drunkeness.
(b) Elena.
(c) Their guests.
(d) Money.

3. What is Leda's profession?
(a) Professor.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Illustrator.

4. What did Leda once give to Bianca to ease her jealously of her new sister?
(a) A cat.
(b) A new stuffed animal.
(c) Her old doll.
(d) A new dress.

5. Which of the Neapolitans does Gino tell Leda he likes the least?
(a) Nina.
(b) Rosaria.
(c) Elena.
(d) Toni.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leda do instead, after having the urge to tell Nina and Elena they do not know how to play?

2. Who does Gino say Nina's family blames for Elena's lost doll?

3. What does Leda realize about Gino as they eat and talk in Chapter 13?

4. In what way did Leda's daughters play with her as if she were a doll when they were young?

5. How old does Leda think the pregnant member of the Neapolitan family is?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Leda first become involved with the Neapolitan family on the beach in Chapter 6?

2. How old was Leda when she had her first child? How did her life change after becoming a mother? In what way is that different from her husband's life after parenthood?

3. In what ways did Leda's life change after her daughters moved away?

4. How is Leda's mother portrayed when Leda was a child?

5. How does Rosaria help Leda when she notices the wound on her back?

6. What conversation topic do Gino and Leda settle on while having dinner in Chapter 12? What does Gino know about Nina and her family, which he shares with Leda over dinner?

7. Who was Florinda? What memory of Florinda is recalled in Chapter 13?

8. Where does Leda wake up at the start of Chapter 1? Why? Who is there with her?

9. Where is Nina at the start of Chapter 10 and who is she searching for?

10. How did Leda sometimes behave when her daughters brought boyfriends over when they were teens?

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