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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where had Sylvia slept the last three months of Leon's life?
(a) A chair by his bed.
(b) In bed with him.
(c) The living room sofa.
(d) The spare bedroom.

3. Where does Clark tell Sylvia that Carla is the evening he stops at her house?
(a) Home in bed.
(b) At her parent's house.
(c) In Toronto.
(d) Buried in the woods.

4. How did Carla think Clark felt about her refusal to go along with what she said Mr. Jamieson had asked of her?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Angered.

5. What often happened with Sylvia's young female students who "hung around her worshipfully" (9)?
(a) They got on Sylvia's nerves.
(b) Sylvia had affairs with them.
(c) They became like daughters to Sylvia.
(d) Mr. Jamieson had affairs with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Carla keep her head down when she first gets on the bus to Toronto?

2. What does Carla do with the letter she receives at the end of the story?

3. What did Carla say she needed to do before calling Sylvia Jamieson back?

4. Where do Carla's mother and father live?

5. What does Sylvia ask Carla about when Carla begins to cry at her house?

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