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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carla tell Sylvia when she asks how life has been there while she was in Greece?

2. Where does Carla's brother live?

3. What often happened with Sylvia's young female students who "hung around her worshipfully" (9)?

4. 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?

5. Who is Ruth Stiles?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Carla get off the bus before she reaches Toronto?

2. How did Carla and Clark meet? What did her parents think of him?

3. What type of home did Carla grow up in? What was her life like? What type of life did Carla tell her mother she wanted when she ran off with Clark?

4. How does Carla decide she will inform Clark she is leaving? What does she ask Sylvia to do to help?

5. What is it about her life with Clark that Carla says she cannot stand anymore?

6. Describe Carla and Sylvia's lunch just before Sylvia brings her to the bus stop.

7. What solution does Sylvia propose when Carla confesses her unhappiness with her life?

8. How does Sylvia feel when Carla begins to cry in front of her at her house after returning from Greece? How does this change her view of Carla?

9. What does Sylvia like about Carla? What gift does she bring her from Greece and why?

10. What do Maggie and Soraya suggest when Sylvia tells them what she likes about Carla? How does Sylvia feel about this?

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