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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 do for Nina, which Gino tells her is kind?
(a) Gave her parenting advice.
(b) Bought her a hatpin.
(c) Found Elena's doll.
(d) Watched Elena for her.

2. What does Leda recall marry men with whom she had affairs telling her at the start of Chapter 19?
(a) They said they would leave their wives for her.
(b) They never told her they were married.
(c) They said they would never leave their wives.
(d) They said they married too young.

3. How long after she met the hitchhikers did Leda leave her family?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 1 year.

4. What are the Neapolitan children handing out on the beach when Leda arrives at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) Handmade crafts.
(b) A flyer for the missing doll.
(c) Sunscreen.
(d) Flyers for a concert.

5. Who pays for Leda's coffee at the beach house bar in Chapter 23?
(a) Toni.
(b) Giovanni.
(c) Rosaria.
(d) Gino.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Giovanni look as he stands near Nina's family at the dance party in Chapter 23?

2. What does Leda say when Nina asks why she left her daughters?

3. What does Leda see in the woods after she dials the number on the flyer in Chapter 18?

4. What does Nina do in the apartment which reminds Leda of her mother and grandmother?

5. What does Elena tell Leda about her doll?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did meeting the hitchhikers change Leda?

2. Why does Leda avoid the beach at the start of Chapter 14? What does she buy instead? Who does Leda bump into while shopping? What are they shopping for?

3. In what way does Giovanni think young people today are different from when he was young?

4. With whom did Leda begin an affair during the E.M. Forster conference?

5. What life changing thing happened when Leda attended the E.M. Forster conference?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Leda remind Nina that she had told her when discussing what she did in the woods with Gino?

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