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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 Elena tell Leda about her doll?
2. What does Leda give to Nina while she is in her apartment at the end of the story?
3. Where did Gianni's family have a home to which they often vacationed when the girls were young?
4. Why did Leda drag her daughters to a pay phone when she returned from the conference?
5. What does Toni say to Leda when he sees her at the fair?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gino ask of Leda at the end of Chapter 23 after he walks her home from the dance?
2. In what way does Leda feel she and Brenda are similar in Chapter 24?
3. What does Leda ask Elena when she bumps into her family outside the toy store in Chapter 14? How does Elena respond? What does Rosaria say should happen to the person who took Elena's doll?
4. What does Leda remind Nina that she had told her when discussing what she did in the woods with Gino?
5. Why was Gianni angry with Leda when she returned from the conference? How did he feel about her newfound drive to work?
6. In what way was Leda's first pregnancy different from her mother's and other relative's?
7. What memory does Leda recall from when Bianca was 5 and Marta was 3 and she was trying to write an essay?
8. What did Leda's daughters say to her about the years she left them?
9. Why is Nina upset when she sees her husband at the start of Chapter 22 while she is at the fair talking with Leda? How does she act when she greets him?
10. What does Nina use to harm Leda at the end of the novel? What does Leda say when her daughters call?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay examining the ending of The Lost Daughter. How did the ending fit into the storyline? Do you think the ending was effective? What theme might the ending represent? What might the author have done differently?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay discussing the setting of The Lost Daughter. In what ways does the setting impact your understanding of the story as well as the themes?
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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