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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Carla tell Sylvia she would go if she had the money?
(a) Vancouver.
(b) Toronto.
(c) British Columbia.
(d) Quebec.
2. 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 raining a lot.
(c) It has been boring without Sylvia.
(d) It has been the same as ever.
3. What does Sylvia say about Carla in the first message she leaves on Ruth's answering machine?
(a) She may be a little full of herself.
(b) She may be a little drunk.
(c) She may be a little overbearing.
(d) She may be a little skittish.
4. Whom does Carla remind Sylvia of most?
(a) Her students.
(b) Former high school classmates.
(c) Mr. Jamieson's nurses.
(d) Her nieces.
5. 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.
6. What gift does Sylvia bring Carla from Greece?
(a) A gold coin.
(b) A silver necklace.
(c) A bronze miniature goat.
(d) A bronze miniature racing horse.
7. 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'll come crawling back.
(c) You don't know what you're leaving behind.
(d) I wish you the best.
8. Where had Sylvia slept the last three months of Leon's life?
(a) The spare bedroom.
(b) The living room sofa.
(c) In bed with him.
(d) A chair by his bed.
9. Why does Carla keep her head down when she first gets on the bus to Toronto?
(a) So Clark will not see.
(b) In case someone who knows Clark is on the bus.
(c) So nobody will see her crying.
(d) So nobody will talk to her.
10. 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 nobody wanted lessons from him.
(c) How annoying their boss was.
(d) How all the women were after him.
11. Why does Sylvia think she may have taken a liking to Carla?
(a) She never had her own children.
(b) Carla is so pretty.
(c) Carla is so helpful around the house.
(d) Carla reminds her of her younger self.
12. What is Carla crying about at Sylvia's?
(a) Losing Flora.
(b) What Leon had done to her.
(c) Lying to Sylvia.
(d) Life with her husband.
13. What does Sylvia tell Carla she would have liked most in Greece?
(a) The bread.
(b) The goats.
(c) The coffee.
(d) The beaches.
14. What does Carla misspell in her letter to Clark?
(a) At least.
(b) A lot.
(c) Alright.
(d) Away.
15. Who is Ruth Stiles?
(a) Sylvia's friend in Toronto.
(b) Sylvia's friend in Greece.
(c) Sylvia's sister in British Columbia.
(d) Sylvia's cousin in Vancouver.
Short Answer Questions
1. What nickname did Carla give to Clark when she first met him and learned of the many jobs he had?
2. What did Clark thinks was like "poison to your blood" (15)?
3. Where does Carla's brother live?
4. What do Carla and Sylvia have for lunch before heading to the bus depot?
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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