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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 nickname did Carla give to Clark when she first met him and learned of the many jobs he had?
(a) Gypsy Rover.
(b) Winsome wanderer.
(c) Sweet Drifter.
(d) Bohemian Babe.

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

3. Where does Carla's brother live?
(a) Quebec.
(b) Montreal.
(c) Vancouver.
(d) Toronto.

4. Where had Sylvia slept the last three months of Leon's life?
(a) The spare bedroom.
(b) In bed with him.
(c) A chair by his bed.
(d) The living room sofa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Clark thinks was like "poison to your blood" (15)?

2. Where do Carla's mother and father live?

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

4. What does Sylvia ask Carla about when Carla begins to cry at her house?

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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