2. What did Carla joke with Clark about when she first started working with him just after highschool?
(a) How nobody wanted lessons from him.
(b) How annoying their boss was.
(c) How bad he was with women.
(d) How all the women were after him.

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

4. What did Clark thinks was like "poison to your blood" (15)?
(a) Fresh air.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Families.
(d) Liquor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Carla's stepfather call Clark?

3. Whom does Carla remind Sylvia of most?

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. What does Carla misspell in her letter to Clark?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

(see the answer keys)

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