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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 Gino tell Leda they will need to give to Giovanni to keep their secret?
(a) 10 Euros.
(b) A bottle of wine.
(c) A pack of cigarettes.
(d) A few pounds of fish.

2. What does Leda buy for Nina and Elena at the fair?
(a) An ice cream.
(b) A new doll.
(c) A blanket.
(d) A hat pin.

3. How old was Nina when she had Elena?
(a) 25.
(b) 19.
(c) 31.
(d) 42.

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

5. What does Elena tell Leda about her doll?
(a) She is blind.
(b) She is scared.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She has a broken leg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Leda unable to return Elena's doll at the start of Chapter 14 as initially planned?

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

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

4. What does Leda recall Bianca doing when she was 5 and Leda was working on an essay?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who is Lucilla? How did Leda's daughters feel about Lucilla? How did Leda feel about Lucilla?

10. What did Leda tell her husband about Lucilla when they returned from their vacation with Lucilla and Mateo?

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