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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Angela tell Giovanna that Giuliana told her Roberto said about Giovanna in Part IV?
(a) That Giovanna is extraordinary.
(b) That Giovanna seems very religious.
(c) That Giovanna is ugly.
(d) That Giovanna is immature.

2. What does Giovanna think after she hears Roberto speak for the first time?
(a) She thinks he is arrogant.
(b) He reminds her of Mariano.
(c) She thinks he is not very intelligent.
(d) She thinks she is in love with him.

3. What does Giovanna notice about her grandmother in one of the pictures Nella shows her in Part III?
(a) She is very thin.
(b) She looks exactly like Giovanna.
(c) She is wearing diamond earrings.
(d) She is wearing the bracelet.

4. What does Costanza do in front of Giovanna in Part III that alarms her?
(a) Vomits.
(b) Pulls out her own hair.
(c) Walks in front of a car.
(d) Cries.

5. Where does Giovanna tell Nella she is going with classmates when she really intends to go with Corrado and Rosario?
(a) Caserta.
(b) Assisi.
(c) Sicily.
(d) Calabria.

6. What does Corrado say Rosario will do to Roberto if he starts thinking Giovanna likes Roberto?
(a) Tell Giovanna lies about Roberto to turn her against him.
(b) Try to encourage Roberto to like Giovanna back.
(c) Try to make friends with him.
(d) Either kill him or have him killed.

7. Why does Costanza ask Giovanna to take off the bracelet in Part III?
(a) It is too painful for Costanza to see again.
(b) Angela and Ida do not know she gave it to Giovanna.
(c) She wants it back from Giovanna.
(d) Andrea will think Giovanna stole it.

8. Which of the following words does Giovanna repeatedly use to describe the bracelet to herself?
(a) Maleficent.
(b) Sentient.
(c) Rowdy.
(d) Baleful.

9. What happens in June in Part III that embarasses Giovanna?
(a) She is robbed.
(b) She is kicked out of school.
(c) She does not get promoted to her next grade level.
(d) She is arrested.

10. Who else does Giovanna discover has torturous thoughts about the bracelet in Part III?
(a) Angela.
(b) Her mother Nella.
(c) Ida.
(d) Margherita.

11. What does Andrea tell Giovanna about how Mariano supposedly treated Costanza?
(a) He always betrayed her.
(b) He always loved her and was loyal to her.
(c) He was always angry with her.
(d) He was always indifferent to her.

12. Why does Giovanna suggest Roberto remembers her from their first meeting?
(a) She is always talking.
(b) She is mean.
(c) She is ugly.
(d) She is just like Aunt Vittoria.

13. What does Andrea tell Giovanna is important if she wants to be baptized?
(a) It had better not be Vittoria's idea or influence.
(b) She needs to have communion after that.
(c) She needs to find a sponsor first.
(d) If she has faith it is fine.

14. What does Giovanna impulsively tell her father she wants to read?
(a) The Gone With the Wind Series.
(b) The Gospels.
(c) The Canterbury Tales.
(d) The Italian Series.

15. What kind of ugliness does Giovanna think Vittoria might have?
(a) The ugliness of sin.
(b) The ugliness of ignorance.
(c) The ugliness of banality.
(d) The ugliness of resentment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Giovanna stop wearing the bracelet in Part III?

2. What does Ida want to read to Giovanna in Part IV?

3. What does Nella do for Andrea that Giovanna thinks is unfair to Nella?

4. Where does Corrado want to go walking with Giovanna in Part IV?

5. Why does Vittoria get so angry at Giovanna in Part III?

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