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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 18 - 27 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word is used to describe how Sylvia feels when Carla began to cry?
(a) Appalled.
(b) Empathetic.
(c) Angry.
(d) Helpless.

2. What complaint did Joy Tucker share with Clark and Carla?
(a) She felt Clark was difficult to do business with.
(b) She felt Carla was not pleasant enough when Joy came to see them.
(c) She felt her horse was not being well taken care of at their place.
(d) She felt they charged too much money for riding lessons.

3. In what way does the summer weather help Carla and Clark at the end of the story?
(a) They grow flowers to sell.
(b) Their garden is abundant.
(c) Their moods improves.
(d) Their business improves.

4. What does Sylvia attribute to Flora's appearance when Clark is at her house?
(a) Good luck.
(b) Carla.
(c) Her husband.
(d) God.

5. What does Sylvia think Carla has found at the end of the story?
(a) True happiness in her marriage.
(b) A new place to live without Clark.
(c) That she made a huge mistake coming back.
(d) A way to hide her true pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "Runaway"?

2. Where did Mrs. Jamieson go on holiday?

3. What often happened with Sylvia's young female students who "hung around her worshipfully" (9)?

4. What does Clark think Leon Jamieson had done while he was alive?

5. What did Carla's mother tell her in the letter she wrote her after Carla ran off with Clark?

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