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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 happened after Leda and Professor Hardy had dinner after the conference?
2. What does Leda say when Giovanni asks about the doll in her apartment?
3. What would Leda's daughters say whenever she tried to discuss the years she left them?
4. What did Leda do when Marta came to her for comfort after Lucilla left her out of a game?
5. How did Leda's professor convince her to go to the conference he invited her to when her children were young?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Leda feel she and Brenda are similar in Chapter 24?
2. In what way does Giovanni think young people today are different from when he was young?
3. What was Leda reminded of while watching Nani spew brown liquid into the sink in Chapter 22?
4. Who does Nina think stole Elena's doll?
5. What did Leda tell her husband about Lucilla when they returned from their vacation with Lucilla and Mateo?
6. Why does Leda decide that Elena probably put something inside of her doll? What does she find?
7. What happens when Leda goes to the movies in Chapter 23?
8. How did Leda treat Marta during vacation when she sought comfort from her mother when Lucilla and Bianca left her out of a game?
9. Who is Lucilla? How did Leda's daughters feel about Lucilla? How did Leda feel about Lucilla?
10. What did Leda's daughters say to her about the years she left them?
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
Read a review of The Lost Daughter. Write an essay about how this review impacted your own views or understanding of the story.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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