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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 Elena call her doll?
(a) Nani.
(b) Mommy.
(c) Gannie.
(d) Baby.

2. 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) Other men.
(b) Her child.
(c) The sun.
(d) Escape.

3. How did Leda feel about her mother?
(a) She was neglectful.
(b) She was very unhappy.
(c) She was too controlling.
(d) She was tender.

4. What was the name of Leda's childhood doll?
(a) Mina.
(b) Baby.
(c) Noni.
(d) Lollie.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Nina's husband's name?

3. What secret does Gino tell Leda he knows about Nina?

4. Why does Leda's youngest daughter say she cannot go to the party she has been invited to when they speak in Chapter 7?

5. What day of Leda's vacation does the beach become crowded?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Elena appear to Leda when she gets a closer look at her as she plays with her doll near Leda while her mother walks with her father in Chapter 9?

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

4. What does Leda think her daughters would do if they saw her walking with Gino? Why?

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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