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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ida tell Giovanna about Vittoria?
(a) She is wonderful.
(b) She seems sad.
(c) She is mean and very ugly.
(d) She seems scary.

2. What does Andrea do for a living?
(a) He works at a university.
(b) He is a doctor.
(c) He is an accountant.
(d) He is a lawyer.

3. Why is Ida sometimes aggressive towards Angela and Giovanna?
(a) She does not really like Giovanna.
(b) She is afraid of being left out.
(c) She gets agitated at night in the dark.
(d) She and her sister Angela fight all the time.

4. What does Giovanna learn to do more and more regarding her parents after meeting Vittoria?
(a) Ignore her parents.
(b) Be angry at her parents.
(c) Manipulate her parents.
(d) Lie to her parents.

5. What does Vittoria tell Giovanna about her grandmother's funeral?
(a) All the nuns in Rome showed up at her grandmother's funeral.
(b) Her grandmother planned her whole funeral herself before she died.
(c) There was no funeral for her grandmother.
(d) Andrea, Giovanna's father, did not attend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Vittoria tell Giovanna they have to go to visit Enzo?

2. When was Giovanna born?

3. What does Giovanna tell Vittoria about her mother's friendship with Costanza?

4. What does Giovanna hope in the days leading up to her first visit with Vittoria?

5. What does Nella tell Giovanna when she says she wants to see Vittoria?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Andrea's siblings seem to think of Andrea when Vittoria takes Giovanna to meet them?

2. What does Giovanna think of Vittoria's neighborhood the first time she goes to visit?

3. Why does Vittoria tell Giovanna that Giovanna's father avoids cemeteries?

4. How does Giovanna feel about Vittoria after their first meeting?

5. Why is Giovanna so interested in her Aunt Vittoria in Part I?

6. What does Giovanna witness between her mother, Nella, and Mariano one night that shocks her in Part II?

7. Why does Giovanna begin pestering her friends Angela and Ida about their opinions of her appearance?

8. What are some of the reasons Giovanna's parents tell her to explain the rift between them and Vittoria?

9. What is the first lie Giovanna tells Angela and Ida?

10. What is one major source of tension between Giovanna and her parents in Part I?

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