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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 dances with "a serious intensity" (79) at a dancing party in Chapter 23?
(a) Nina.
(b) Gino.
(c) Rosaria.
(d) Giovanni.

2. What does Gino say Nina wants him to ask of Leda?
(a) If she will help her enroll in university.
(b) If she can help her leave her family.
(c) If she will watch Elena for a few hours.
(d) If they can use her apartment for a few hours.

3. What does Leda tell Rosaria and Nina when Rosaria asked what Leda's daughters were like as little girls?
(a) They were angels.
(b) Just like any other kids.
(c) She left them.
(d) They were terrors.

4. How did Leda's professor convince her to go to the conference he invited her to when her children were young?
(a) He told her she could be a guest speaker.
(b) He secured funding for her trip.
(c) He found a baby-sitter for her children.
(d) He spoke to her husband and convinced him to allow her to go.

5. Why was Leda upset that Gianni picked up hitchhikers on the ride to their vacation home?
(a) She was already busy with their young daughters.
(b) The blasted music.
(c) They refused to use a map.
(d) The hitchhikers looked scary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Giovanni bring to Leda's apartment at the start of Chapter 20?

2. What does Leda say she lived with during the three years she was away from her daughters?

3. Why is Nina upset to learn her husband is at the fair at the start of Chapter 22?

4. What does Leda tell Nina she felt "more useless and desperate without...than with" (72)?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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 was Leda's first pregnancy different from her mother's and other relative's?

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

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

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

7. What does Leda tell Rosaria and Nina when Rosaria asks what her daughters were like as little girls?

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

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

10. What does Leda ask Elena when she bumps into her family outside the toy store in Chapter 14? How does Elena respond? What does Rosaria say should happen to the person who took Elena's doll?

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