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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other gift does Sylvia bring back for Carla but does not give to her?
(a) A little stone she had found on the road.
(b) A set of earrings.
(c) Some coffee.
(d) A postcard of where she had been staying.

2. What nickname did Carla give to Clark when she first met him and learned of the many jobs he had?
(a) Sweet Drifter.
(b) Gypsy Rover.
(c) Bohemian Babe.
(d) Winsome wanderer.

3. What does Carla tell Sylvia when she asks how life has been there while she was in Greece?
(a) It has been beautiful and sunny.
(b) It has been boring without Sylvia.
(c) It has been raining a lot.
(d) It has been the same as ever.

4. Where do Carla's mother and father live?
(a) Quebec.
(b) Toronto.
(c) British Columbia.
(d) Vancouver.

5. What type of life did Carla tell her mother she always feel she needed in the letter she wrote her before running off with Clark?
(a) Authentic.
(b) Inspiring.
(c) Stable.
(d) Exciting.

6. What had Carla planned to become when she was younger?
(a) A maid.
(b) A veterinarian.
(c) A professor.
(d) A blacksmith.

7. What does Sylvia ask Carla about when Carla begins to cry at her house?
(a) Flora.
(b) How their business was doing.
(c) Clark.
(d) What happened between her and Leon.

8. Where does Carla's brother live?
(a) Vancouver.
(b) Quebec.
(c) Montreal.
(d) Toronto.

9. What is different about Carla the first day she was at Sylvia's after her return from Greece?
(a) She is acting silly.
(b) She is happy.
(c) She is super talkative.
(d) She is sullen.

10. What is Carla crying about at Sylvia's?
(a) Losing Flora.
(b) Lying to Sylvia.
(c) What Leon had done to her.
(d) Life with her husband.

11. What does Sylvia tell Carla she would have liked most in Greece?
(a) The coffee.
(b) The goats.
(c) The beaches.
(d) The bread.

12. Whom does Carla remind Sylvia of most?
(a) Mr. Jamieson's nurses.
(b) Her nieces.
(c) Her students.
(d) Former high school classmates.

13. What does Sylvia give to Carla before taking her to the bus stop?
(a) A bagged lunch.
(b) A canister of coffee.
(c) A gold necklace to sell.
(d) A change of clothes.

14. Who is Ruth Stiles?
(a) Sylvia's cousin in Vancouver.
(b) Sylvia's friend in Greece.
(c) Sylvia's sister in British Columbia.
(d) Sylvia's friend in Toronto.

15. What did Carla joke with Clark about when she first started working with him just after highschool?
(a) How nobody wanted lessons from him.
(b) How annoying their boss was.
(c) How bad he was with women.
(d) How all the women were after him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What song did Carla hum when she left a note for her parents after deciding to run away with Clark?

2. What does Carla misspell in her letter to Clark?

3. What gift does Sylvia bring Carla from Greece?

4. What did Clark thinks was like "poison to your blood" (15)?

5. What did Maggie say happens to everyone at some point when Sylvia was telling them about Carla?

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