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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 Nina looking for when Nina wakes up on the beach at the start of Chapter 10?
(a) Nani.
(b) Her wallet.
(c) Elena.
(d) Her hat.

2. How old is Leda at the start of the story?
(a) 47.
(b) 37.
(c) 57.
(d) 27.

3. What was one reason Leda allowed her daughters to play with her as if she were a doll?
(a) She thought it was fun.
(b) She hated it, but was too tired to say no.
(c) It annoyed their father.
(d) Her mother never let her do that.

4. Whose "gentle cadence" (13) did Nina's voice remind Leda?
(a) Leda's daughter.
(b) Leda's lover.
(c) Leda's mother.
(d) Leda's husband.

5. What was Leda's ex-husband's profession?
(a) Author.
(b) Actor.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the person who greeted Leda when she arrived at her vacation apartment?

2. What begins to irritate Leda as she watches Nina and Elena play on the beach?

3. What does Nina tell Leda Elena was wearing at the start of Chapter 10?

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

5. What did Leda once give to Bianca to ease her jealously of her new sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leda suspect after seeing Giovanni at the bar playing cards with his friends?

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

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

4. Why did Leda allow her daughters to play with her like a doll?

5. In what ways do the Neapolitans remind Leda of her family?

6. Who joins the Neapolitans in Chapter 6? How does this impact other bathers on the beach?

7. 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?

8. Why did Leda give her childhood doll to Bianca when she was young? What toy did Bianca prefer to the doll Leda gave to her?

9. Where does Leda recall never looking when she lost Bianca on the beach? What does Leda recall doing when she was lost as a little girl? What was Elena doing when Leda found her?

10. Where did Bianca and Marta recently move? With whom? How did Leda feel about their absence?

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