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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. Who calls Leda while she is at the fair rummaging through clothes and antiques?
(a) Bianca.
(b) Nina.
(c) Rosaria.
(d) Marta.

2. Why is Leda unable to return Elena's doll at the start of Chapter 14 as initially planned?
(a) Nina's family left.
(b) Leda is sick.
(c) She cannot find the doll.
(d) The weather was no good for the beach.

3. What does Nina say has happened to Elena since she lost her doll?
(a) She has regressed.
(b) She seems more grown up.
(c) She refuses to eat.
(d) She has stopped speaking.

4. How does Leda feel she looks when she arrives at her apartment after thinking she is being followed in Chapter 23?
(a) Plump and sexy.
(b) Older and too thin.
(c) Frightened and dazed.
(d) Young and refreshed.

5. What does Leda say when Giovanni asks about the doll in her apartment?
(a) She says she has no idea how it got there.
(b) She says she found it and wanted to clean it before giving it back to Elena.
(c) She says she stole it from the child.
(d) She says it is her good luck charm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nina tell Leda she wants to do after Leda returns home?

2. In what way does Leda feel she is to Nina what Brenda was to her?

3. What does Nina tell Leda Elena has been doing since her father left in Chapter 14?

4. What does Nina ask Leda when she calls on Sunday close to midnight in Chapter 25?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Leda feel she and Brenda are similar in Chapter 24?

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

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

4. Why is Nina upset when she sees her husband at the start of Chapter 22 while she is at the fair talking with Leda? How does she act when she greets him?

5. What was Leda reminded of while watching Nani spew brown liquid into the sink in Chapter 22?

6. How did Leda treat Marta during vacation when she sought comfort from her mother when Lucilla and Bianca left her out of a game?

7. What answer does Leda give when Nina asks her why she kept the doll after knowing how tormented she was over it?

8. What memory does Leda recall from when Bianca was 5 and Marta was 3 and she was trying to write an essay?

9. What does Nina use to harm Leda at the end of the novel? What does Leda say when her daughters call?

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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