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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 did Clark thinks was like "poison to your blood" (15)?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Fresh air.
(c) Liquor.
(d) Families.

2. Where does Carla tell Sylvia she would go if she had the money?
(a) Vancouver.
(b) Toronto.
(c) British Columbia.
(d) Quebec.

3. What does Sylvia ask Carla about when Carla begins to cry at her house?
(a) How their business was doing.
(b) Flora.
(c) Clark.
(d) What happened between her and Leon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Sylvia go to Greece?

2. What does Carla tell Sylvia when she asks how life has been there while she was in Greece?

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

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

5. What does Sylvia tell Carla she would have liked most in Greece?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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