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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) A bottle of wine.
(b) Nani's doll clothes.
(c) A gold watch.
(d) Nani.

2. What does Leda bring to the beach with her the morning after she took sleeping pills and slept well in Chapter 18?
(a) Homemade brownies.
(b) Two bottles of wine.
(c) Her old doll Mina.
(d) The doll and the new clothes.

3. What does Toni say to Leda when he sees her at the fair?
(a) He asks her to keep away from his wife.
(b) It is nice that she has nothing to do.
(c) He is happy Nina has found a friend.
(d) He asks if she is the one who stole the doll.

4. Who is Corrado?
(a) Rosaria's husband.
(b) Bianca's professor.
(c) Leda's lover.
(d) Marta's boyfriend.

5. Why was Leda worried Gianni would bring her daughters to her family in Naples after she left them?
(a) Leda was worried they would never want to leave Naples.
(b) Leda had tried so hard to leave that part of herself behind.
(c) Leda was worried Gianni would not care for them if he had help.
(d) Leda was worried her mother would spoil them too much.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 19, Leda reflects on a time her professor invited her to a conference on which writer?

3. What does Gino say Nina wants him to ask of Leda?

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

5. What does Leda remind Nina she had said as Leda is discussing allowing Nina to use her apartment with Gino?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did meeting the hitchhikers change Leda?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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