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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 different about Carla the first day she was at Sylvia's after her return from Greece?

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

3. What had Carla planned to become when she was younger?

4. With whom did Sylvia go to Greece?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

Examine the use of dialogue vs the use of description. Look at how each is used in the story and what makes these uses effective or ineffective. Explore the moments when conversations are described rather than the dialogue shown. Consider why they author may have chosen to show conversations in this way and whether or not it was effective.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing the imagery used in "Runaway." Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.

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