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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. Who is Ruth Stiles?
(a) Sylvia's sister in British Columbia.
(b) Sylvia's cousin in Vancouver.
(c) Sylvia's friend in Greece.
(d) Sylvia's friend in Toronto.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Where does Carla tell Sylvia she would go if she had the money?

3. With whom did Sylvia go to Greece?

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

5. How does Carla decide she will inform Clark of her departure?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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