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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. With whom did Sylvia go to Greece?
(a) Her mother and sister.
(b) Mr. Jamieson's two younger sisters.
(c) She went alone.
(d) Her two friends Maggie and Soraya.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about Carla the first day she was at Sylvia's after her return from Greece?

2. What did Carla's stepfather call Clark?

3. Where had Sylvia slept the last three months of Leon's life?

4. What is Carla crying about at Sylvia's?

5. What song did Carla hum when she left a note for her parents after deciding to run away with 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 did Carla and Clark meet? What did her parents think of him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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