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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 Nina looking for when Nina wakes up on the beach at the start of Chapter 10?
2. What is Nina's husband's name?
3. What was Leda's ex-husband's profession?
4. What subject does Leda teach?
5. Who does the Neapolitan family on the beach remind Leda of when she first notices them in Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Rosaria help Leda when she notices the wound on her back?
2. How did Leda first become involved with the Neapolitan family on the beach in Chapter 6?
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. Who is Giovanni? Describe Leda's first interaction with him when she arrives at her vacation apartment.
5. What did Leda think of Gino when she first met him? Which of her daughters did she think would like him most?
6. Where did Bianca and Marta recently move? With whom? How did Leda feel about their absence?
7. What contentious interaction does Leda witness between Nina and her husband at the end of Chapter 9? What changes as a result of their interaction?
8. Where does Leda wake up at the start of Chapter 1? Why? Who is there with her?
9. In what ways do the Neapolitans remind Leda of her family?
10. What was Leda's routine her first few days of vacation?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Ferrante's decision to tell the story using first-person point-of-view from Leda's perspective. How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in Ferrante of The Lost Daughter. Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the story is effective in conveying the story’s themes.
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