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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. Why did Gino ask Leda to ask a group of bathers to move for the Neapolitans?
(a) Gino felt that Leda owed them a favor.
(b) The group did not like the Neapolitans.
(c) Gino was too busy to ask them himself.
(d) They did not speak Italian.

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

3. What does Leda tell Nina is "blinding" (27) after she found Elena in Chapter 10?
(a) Fury.
(b) Love.
(c) Anguish.
(d) The sunshine.

4. Who are Bianca and Marta?
(a) Leda's aunts.
(b) Leda's daughters.
(c) Leda's sisters.
(d) Leda's best friends.

5. What begins to irritate Leda as she watches Nina and Elena play on the beach?
(a) She felt Nina was playing the role of the beautiful mother for the benefit of the crowd.
(b) She felt Nina allowed Elena to get away with behaving rudely.
(c) She felt Nina did not pay enough attention to Elena.
(d) She felt Nina and Elena ignored their family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old does Leda think the young mother in the Neapolitan family is?

2. What did Leda's mother often threaten to do when Leda was young?

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

4. What is Leda's ex-husband's name?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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