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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 does Sylvia say about Carla in the first message she leaves on Ruth's answering machine?

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

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

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

5. Why does Carla keep her head down when she first gets on the bus to Toronto?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Read a review of "Runaway." Write an essay about how this review impacted your own views or understanding of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Pick a character from the story and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters' goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the story's themes?

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