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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 tell her daughters whey they say she should have called to tell them she is alive?
(a) I'm gravely injured, but I'll live.
(b) I'm alive and well.
(c) I don't know anymore.
(d) I'm dead, but fine.

2. How old is Giovanni?
(a) 50.
(b) 45.
(c) 22.
(d) 69.

3. What does Leda recall Bianca doing when she was 5 and Leda was working on an essay?
(a) Screaming in her ear.
(b) Tearing up her work.
(c) Coloring all over her work.
(d) Slapping her on the ear.

4. Why did Leda drag her daughters to a pay phone when she returned from the conference?
(a) To call her mother and ask if the girls could live with her.
(b) To call Gianni when she was locked out of her apartment.
(c) To call Professor Hardy.
(d) They could not afford their home phone anymore.

5. What does Giovanni bring to Leda's apartment at the start of Chapter 20?
(a) Flowers.
(b) A bottle of wine.
(c) Fish.
(d) A new dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leda buy for Nina and Elena at the fair?

2. What does Leda bring to the beach with her the morning after she took sleeping pills and slept well in Chapter 18?

3. What surprised Leda during Professor Hardy's speech at the conference she attended with her professor?

4. What does Nina do just before telling Leda she has to leave after meeting her at the fair?

5. Why was Leda jealous of Lucilla?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nina talk to Leda about when they meet at the fair in Chapter 21?

2. What would Lucilla do if Bianca and Marta did not want to play with her?

3. What does Leda say when Nina asked why she left her daughters?

4. What did Leda's daughters say to her about the years she left them?

5. In what way was Leda's first pregnancy different from her mother's and other relative's?

6. What did Leda tell her husband about Lucilla when they returned from their vacation with Lucilla and Mateo?

7. Who is Lucilla? How did Leda's daughters feel about Lucilla? How did Leda feel about Lucilla?

8. What happens to Leda during lunch in her apartment with Giovanni? How does Giovanni try to help?

9. Why does Leda decide that Elena probably put something inside of her doll? What does she find?

10. Why is Leda so angry with herself after talking with Rosaria and Nina on their way to buy Elena a new doll?

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