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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 give to Nina while she is in her apartment at the end of the story?
(a) Nani's doll clothes.
(b) A bottle of wine.
(c) Nani.
(d) A gold watch.

2. What happened after Leda and Professor Hardy had dinner after the conference?
(a) He offered her a high paying job.
(b) He told her he would mentor her.
(c) They began an affair.
(d) He asked her to leave her family and run away with him.

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

4. Where did Gianni's family have a home to which they often vacationed when the girls were young?
(a) Palermo.
(b) Florence.
(c) Naples.
(d) Calabrese.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dances with "a serious intensity" (79) at a dancing party in Chapter 23?

2. Why does Leda decide against calling her daughters at the start of Chapter 24?

3. What did Leda's husband tell her when she called him after Professor Hardy's speech?

4. How old is Giovanni's oldest son?

5. Why was Leda upset that Gianni picked up hitchhikers on the ride to their vacation home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Nina think stole Elena's doll?

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

6. What does Gino ask of Leda at the end of Chapter 23 after he walks her home from the dance?

7. 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?

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

9. What happens when Leda goes to the movies in Chapter 23?

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

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