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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Maggie say happens to everyone at some point when Sylvia was telling them about Carla?
(a) They need someone to help clean the house.
(b) They find a surrogate daughter.
(c) They have a crush on a girl.
(d) They find out their husband had an affair.

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

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

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) Inspiring.
(b) Stable.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Authentic.

6. What gift does Sylvia bring Carla from Greece?
(a) A bronze miniature racing horse.
(b) A gold coin.
(c) A bronze miniature goat.
(d) A silver necklace.

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

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

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

10. How does Carla decide she will inform Clark of her departure?
(a) She will have Ruth call him from Toronto.
(b) She will have Sylvia put a note from her in the mailbox.
(c) She will call him before he leaves.
(d) She will stop by and tell him in person before she leaves.

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

12. 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.

13. What did Carla's mother tell her in the letter she wrote her after Carla ran off with Clark?
(a) I wish you the best.
(b) You'll come crawling back.
(c) You don't know what you're leaving behind.
(d) Don't ever come back.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Carla tell Sylvia she would go if she had the money?

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

3. With whom did Sylvia go to Greece?

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

5. Who is Ruth Stiles?

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