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

2. In what way does Leda feel she is to Nina what Brenda was to her?
(a) She can help Nina's career.
(b) Nina took her in for a night.
(c) Leda is lost like Brenda.
(d) She represents freedom from her life.

3. 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) The weather was no good for the beach.
(d) She cannot find the doll.

4. What does Leda tell Nina she felt "more useless and desperate without...than with" (72)?
(a) Her daughters.
(b) Her work.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her mother.

5. Why did the hitchhiking couple leave their families behind?
(a) They robbed them.
(b) Their families disapproved of their relationship.
(c) To travel together.
(d) They were joining a cult.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Leda feel "reduced her to rotting matter without life" (75)?

2. Who does Leda notice at the fair just before Nina leaves her?

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

4. Why is Leda annoyed at the movie she attends in Chapter 23?

5. How old is Giovanni's oldest son?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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