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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 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Carla and Sylvia have for lunch before heading to the bus depot?

3. What did Carla's stepfather call Clark?

4. Why does Carla keep her head down when she first gets on the bus to Toronto?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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