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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) Some coffee.
(c) A set of earrings.
(d) A postcard of where she had been staying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Where does Carla tell Sylvia she would go if she had the money?
(a) British Columbia.
(b) Vancouver.
(c) Toronto.
(d) Quebec.

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 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 super talkative.
(c) She is happy.
(d) She is sullen.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ruth Stiles?

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

3. What gift does Sylvia bring Carla from Greece?

4. With whom did Sylvia go to Greece?

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

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