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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the young Neapolitan mother's name?
2. Who tells Leda over the phone that Canada is “an uninhabitable country, both winter and summer” (21).
3. What is Leda's youngest daughter's name?
4. What was one reason Leda allowed her daughters to play with her as if she were a doll?
5. What did Leda's mother often threaten to do when Leda was young?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Leda suspect after seeing Giovanni at the bar playing cards with his friends?
2. In what ways do the Neapolitans remind Leda of her family?
3. How does Leda decide she will return Elena's doll as she drives back to her apartment at the start of Chapter 11?
4. What did Leda think of Nina when she first saw her on the beach?
5. How does Elena appear to Leda when she gets a closer look at her as she plays with her doll near Leda while her mother walks with her father in Chapter 9?
6. What conversation topic do Gino and Leda settle on while having dinner in Chapter 12? What does Gino know about Nina and her family, which he shares with Leda over dinner?
7. How did Leda's view of Nina change on the first Saturday of her vacation after the beach grew crowded at the end of Chapter 1?
8. What happens when Leda calls her daughters after getting hit with a pinecone? How does she feel after their conversation?
9. Who was Florinda? What memory of Florinda is recalled in Chapter 13?
10. Where did Bianca and Marta recently move? With whom? How did Leda feel about their absence?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about the author of The Lost Daughter. Who is she? What else has she written? How is The Lost Daughter similar or different from her previous works?
Essay Topic 2
Pick a character from the novel and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters' goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?
Essay Topic 3
Write a brief essay analyzing the title The Lost Daughter. Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of the story.
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