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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 often happened with Sylvia's young female students who "hung around her worshipfully" (9)?
(a) They became like daughters to Sylvia.
(b) Mr. Jamieson had affairs with them.
(c) Sylvia had affairs with them.
(d) They got on Sylvia's nerves.

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

3. 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?
(a) Inspiring.
(b) Exciting.
(c) Authentic.
(d) Stable.

4. What did Carla's stepfather call Clark?
(a) Idiot.
(b) Loser.
(c) Vagabond.
(d) Son.

5. Where do Carla's mother and father live?
(a) British Columbia.
(b) Quebec.
(c) Vancouver.
(d) Toronto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Maggie say happens to everyone at some point when Sylvia was telling them about Carla?

2. What did Carla's mother tell her in the letter she wrote her after Carla ran off with Clark?

3. What song did Carla hum when she left a note for her parents after deciding to run away with Clark?

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

5. With whom did Sylvia go to Greece?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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