Tony Soprano's Women Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sister

Tony was clearly close to his older sister, Janice, but she also drove him crazy. She left New Jersey as a teen, and Tony accused her several times of running away and leaving him to deal with their demanding mother. She returned to New Jersey with a new name -- Pavarti -- annoying Tony to no end with hew New Age facade. Soon the real Janice surfaced.

She was always scheming to make a living without actually working. The actors who played Janet and Tony, Aida Turturro and James Gandolfini, captured the sibling relationship exceptionally well. Tony physically relaxed in front of Janice in ways he didn't with anyone else, yet after even a short time together, she would invariably tick him off, he'd stiffen, get angry, and leave.

Answer: Mother

Tony's mother, Livia Soprano, is one of the most evil villains in television history. Several elements put her at the top of the worst villain lists. One, she was sneaky-mean; you never knew when she'd strike out and she would always hit you where it hurt. "It's all a big nothing. What what makes you think you're so special? " - she gave that pearl of wisdom to her young grandson. Two, she was highly manipulative but when she was called on it, she'd burst into tears and say no one loved her. Three, no one expects a mother to be so vicious.

She even encouraged Uncle Junior to have Tony killed, yet pretended she didn't know what Junior was talking about after the plot failed. On top of all that, she was also incessantly negative. Her most common topic of conversation was violent deaths of families and children. Played perfectly by Nancy Marchand, Livia Soprano passed away in season two in the episode, "Proshai, Livushka."

Answer: Wife

Tony's wife Carmela was the most stabilizing influence in Tony's adult life. They met quite young and married before Carmela could finish college. She didn't grow up in the mafia the way he did, but she was very attracted to him and, in the early seasons at least, she was clearly in love with him despite his flaws and infidelities.

She provided him with a stable home base. No matter what nasty business Tony had to deal with at work, he knew he could come home to a warm meal, a comfortable home, and a woman who was not insane and mean like his mother.

When she tried to divorce him later, she was unable to, partially because he had made all divorce lawyers ineligible to work for her and partially because, ultimately, she didn't want to. They made a financial arrangement so she could grow her real estate business and she let him move back home.

Answer: Daughter

Tony's relationship with his daughter Meadow was one of the bright spots of his life. Meadow seemed to have the best traits of her parents with a few of her own thrown in. She was keenly smart, almost intuitive, like her father, and knew exactly the kind of business Tony was in even when he refused to admit it directly.

She was a dedicated student, probably what Carmela would have liked to have been had she not married so young. She was multi-talented, playing on the high school soccer team as well as singing in the choir, and she was accepted to Columbia, a prestigious university in New York.

In her first few years of college, she seemed interested in social justice as she studied prelaw. But by the end of the show, she was moving into the corporate world, which has more elements of her father's business than she would probably care to admit. Regardless, Meadow and Tony were always quite close, even when Meadow and Carmela were on the outs. Tony had a shocking moment when he realized that a hard-knock stripper at The Bing was about the same age as his beloved daughter and he had a sudden protective streak for the stripper, which ends in violence.

Answer: Russian mistress

Aspiring model Irina Peltsin was Tony's longterm girlfriend. By the time we met Tony, the rose was off the bloom of this illicit affair, as Tony was growing impatient with Irina's complaints. He also contrasted her against the intelligent and conservatively-dressed Dr. Melfi, whom he'd begun seeing professionally. When Tony broke up with Irina, he had his consigliere, Silvio Dante, do the talking. Silvio also passed on money to Irina, with the friendly reminder that time was not on her side and her looks would soon fail her.

We didn't see much of Irina after season two, but she played an important role more than once. One example was that she revealed to Carmela that Tony had cheated on her again, driving Carmela to kick Tony out and try, unsuccessfully in the end, to divorce him.

Answer: Psychiatrist

Dr. Jennifer Melfi was the catalyst for the show's structure; Tony, a high-ranking member of the family business, was stressed by power struggles at work; a wife and two children at home who wanted more time from him; a demanding, mean mother; a protege he had high hopes for turning dangerously to hard drugs; and a girlfriend, who was supposed to offer him relief from his troubles, only causing more. Only Tony was in the mafia, so it all came with higher stakes.

Tony turned to a psychiatrist when he was experiencing panic attacks. Dr. Melfi was in sharp contract to the rest of his life. She was highly intelligent and moral as well as ethical. For many seasons, she tried in multiple ways to encourage Tony to control his temper and his violent tendencies. By the end, she finally saw that she was enabling his sociopathic behavior, giving him a place to practice his lies, and she abruptly cut off his therapy for good.

It is difficult to gauge if Dr. Melfi's dropping Tony had an effect on him at that point. He was already in free-fall, gambling huge amounts of money, unable to reach his suicidal son, and suspicious even of his most loyal men.

Answer: Suicidal girlfriend

Gloria Trillo burst into Tony's life when he spotted this Italian-American beauty in Dr. Melfi's waiting room. The chemistry between them was instant; Gloria was intelligent, funny, and more worldly than the other women in Tony's life, and he was instantly drawn to her. Why she was drawn to him might be more complex; Dr. Melfi later reported that some people are like moths to flames.

Gloria and Tony's love affair soured as their neuroses inevitably took over. Tony eventually saw that Gloria was a younger version of his mother and broke it off with her. Later, he learned that she committed suicide.
Proshai, Glorushka.

Answer: One-time Russian mistress

Svetlana Kirilenko did not play a huge part in Tony's life, but she played an important role. One, she took over taking care of his horrible mother and was in fact the only caretaker who could take Livia for any amount of time. This relieved him from daily hassles from Livia.

She also had the moral fiber not to have a long-term affair with Tony when she had the chance. She identified him as having problems and she didn't want any more problems in her own life. This view of himself threw Tony for a loop.

But his relationship with Svetlana was not about power and was in fact one of the more equitable relationships in his life, albeit a short one. It was probably not a coincidence that Svetlana and Carmela, the two most reliable adult women in Tony's life, were both blonde, while all of his mistresses were brunettes.

Answer: Italian-Cubana mistress

Valentina La Paz appeared in seasons four and five, first as Ralph's girlfriend, which meant to Tony that she was tainted. She convinced him otherwise, and they began an affair. Valentina probably reminded Tony of Gloria, as they were both sharp with comebacks, but Valentina lacked Gloria's depth and Tony soon tired of her and her immature antics.

He was seconds away from breaking up with her when she was suddenly burned in a kitchen fire; he broke up with her in the hospital a few days later. She was not pleased.

Answer: Nephew's fiancee

For most of "The Sopranos", Adriana La Cerva was simply Christopher's girlfriend or financee, a familiar presence at family meals and a woman everyone seemed to approve of for Christopher. But toward the end of the show, Tony looked at Adriana with new eyes, recognizing that she could potentially offer him a new start at life, the chance to restart a family without making the mistakes he made with Carmela.

His attraction to her was dangerous, verboten in mafia code. They were in a serious car accident before anything could happen, and the spell was broken. Later, when Tony had to protect his Family from Adriana, he showed no mercy.