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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 is the name of the person who greeted Leda when she arrived at her vacation apartment?
(a) Gianni.
(b) Alessandro.
(c) Riccardo.
(d) Giovanni.

2. What is the young Neapolitan mother's name?
(a) Lela.
(b) Nala.
(c) Nora.
(d) Nina.

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

4. What did Bianca do to Mina, which angered Leda?
(a) She drew a mustache on her face.
(b) She colored on her with marker.
(c) She cut her hair.
(d) She painted her finger nails.

5. What does Leda think was the only thing the young Neapolitan mother desired as she watched her and her daughter play in the water in Chapter 4?
(a) Escape.
(b) Her child.
(c) Other men.
(d) The sun.

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. What ominous warning sign does Elena imagine as she drives at the start of the novel?

3. Who is the author of The Lost Daughter?

4. What happened to Leda's ex-husband's career after they had children?

5. Who is Rosaria?

Short Essay Questions

1. What childhood memories returned to Leda as she drives in Chapter 1 and pictures seeing a red flag on an empty beach?

2. How did Leda get injured on her way back from the beach in Chapter 7? What does she think happened?

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

4. What happened when Leda found Bianca on the balcony with the doll she had given to her?

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

6. How does Leda decide she will return Elena's doll as she drives back to her apartment at the start of Chapter 11?

7. 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?

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

9. Why does Leda say that strangers are helpful in situations such as Nina losing Elena on the beach?

10. What was Leda's routine her first few days of vacation?

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