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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 does Leda bring to the beach with her the morning after she took sleeping pills and slept well in Chapter 18?

2. Where did Leda go for two months the first time she left her family?

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

4. Why would Leda's daughters ask her to leave the apartment when they were teenagers?

5. What does Giovanni describe, which Leda called a pupatella?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Leda feel she and Brenda are similar in Chapter 24?

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

3. What does Leda tell Rosaria and Nina when Rosaria asks what her daughters were like as little girls?

4. What does Giovanni tell Leda about this life she he brings fish to her apartment in Chapter 20?

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

6. Why was Gianni angry with Leda when she returned from the conference? How did he feel about her newfound drive to work?

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

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

9. How did Leda treat Marta during vacation when she sought comfort from her mother when Lucilla and Bianca left her out of a game?

10. What memory does Leda recall from when Bianca was 5 and Marta was 3 and she was trying to write an essay?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Ferrante's commentary on motherhood in The Lost Daughter. How is motherhood important to the story? How does it affect the narrative? Use textual evidence to explain your analysis.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing the symbolic significance the Neapolitan family has on the story. What does this family represent and how do they develop the themes of the story?

Essay Topic 3

Read a review of The Lost Daughter. Write an essay about how this review impacted your own views or understanding of the story.

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