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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What song did Carla hum when she left a note for her parents after deciding to run away with Clark?
(a) A Bob Dylan Song.
(b) A Kinks song.
(c) A Rolling Stone's song.
(d) A Beatle's song.

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

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

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

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

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

9. With whom did Sylvia go to Greece?
(a) Mr. Jamieson's two younger sisters.
(b) She went alone.
(c) Her mother and sister.
(d) Her two friends Maggie and Soraya.

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

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

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

13. Why does Sylvia think she may have taken a liking to Carla?
(a) Carla is so helpful around the house.
(b) She never had her own children.
(c) Carla reminds her of her younger self.
(d) Carla is so pretty.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Carla's stepfather call Clark?

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

3. Who is Ruth Stiles?

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

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?

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