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

2. Whom does Carla remind Sylvia of most?
(a) Her students.
(b) Her nieces.
(c) Mr. Jamieson's nurses.
(d) Former high school classmates.

3. 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.

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

5. How does Carla decide she will inform Clark of her departure?
(a) She will call him before he leaves.
(b) She will have Ruth call him from Toronto.
(c) She will have Sylvia put a note from her in the mailbox.
(d) She will stop by and tell him in person before she leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sylvia think she may have taken a liking to Carla?

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

3. What did Carla joke with Clark about when she first started working with him just after highschool?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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