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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Carla crying about at Sylvia's?

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

3. What song did Carla hum when she left a note for her parents after deciding to run away with Clark?

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose a character and discuss their role in creating conflict in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Write a brief essay analyzing the title "Runaway."Explore the ways in which this "Runaway" connects to the plot and themes of the story.

Essay Topic 3

Away from the main character examine the way the author uses the other characters in the story. When does she introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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