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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 does Sylvia say about Carla in the first message she leaves on Ruth's answering machine?
(a) She may be a little overbearing.
(b) She may be a little skittish.
(c) She may be a little drunk.
(d) She may be a little full of herself.

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 the same as ever.
(c) It has been boring without Sylvia.
(d) It has been raining a lot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. Why does Carla keep her head down when she first gets on the bus to Toronto?
(a) So nobody will see her crying.
(b) In case someone who knows Clark is on the bus.
(c) So Clark will not see.
(d) So nobody will talk to her.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Carla joke with Clark about when she first started working with him just after highschool?

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

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

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