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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 Toni say to Leda when he sees her at the fair?

2. What are the Neapolitan children handing out on the beach when Leda arrives at the end of Chapter 18?

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

4. What does Leda say when Giovanni asks about the doll in her apartment?

5. What did Leda tell her husband after their vacation with Lucilla?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Leda tell her husband about Lucilla when they returned from their vacation with Lucilla and Mateo?

2. What does Nina use to harm Leda at the end of the novel? What does Leda say when her daughters call?

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

4. How did meeting the hitchhikers change Leda?

5. Why does Leda avoid the beach at the start of Chapter 14? What does she buy instead? Who does Leda bump into while shopping? What are they shopping for?

6. Why does Leda decide that Elena probably put something inside of her doll? What does she find?

7. 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?

8. With whom did Leda begin an affair during the E.M. Forster conference?

9. What did Leda's daughters say to her about the years she left them?

10. What happens when Leda goes to the movies in Chapter 23?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing Ferrante's language style and word choice in The Lost Daughter. What are some words that stand out to you and why? What words are repeated? What words are most impactful? Explain your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Write an essay exploring the central purpose of this story. What response do you think the author hoped to get from her readers? Do you think she was successful? Why or why not?

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