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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 does Carla tell Sylvia when she asks how life has been there while she was in Greece?
(a) It has been raining a lot.
(b) It has been beautiful and sunny.
(c) It has been the same as ever.
(d) It has been boring without Sylvia.

2. What does Sylvia tell Carla she would have liked most in Greece?
(a) The bread.
(b) The coffee.
(c) The goats.
(d) The beaches.

3. What did Carla's mother tell her in the letter she wrote her after Carla ran off with Clark?
(a) You'll come crawling back.
(b) Don't ever come back.
(c) I wish you the best.
(d) You don't know what you're leaving behind.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What often happened with Sylvia's young female students who "hung around her worshipfully" (9)?

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

4. What had Carla planned to become when she was younger?

5. What other gift does Sylvia bring back for Carla but does not give to her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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