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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. Where does Carla tell Sylvia she would go if she had the money?
2. What does Carla misspell in her letter to Clark?
3. What does Sylvia tell Carla she would have liked most in Greece?
4. What did Carla joke with Clark about when she first started working with him just after highschool?
5. What type of life did Carla tell her mother she always feel she needed in the letter she wrote her before running off with Clark?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is it about her life with Clark that Carla says she cannot stand anymore?
2. What do Maggie and Soraya suggest when Sylvia tells them what she likes about Carla? How does Sylvia feel about this?
3. 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?
4. How does Carla decide she will inform Clark she is leaving? What does she ask Sylvia to do to help?
5. How did Carla and Clark meet? What did her parents think of him?
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. Why does Carla get off the bus before she reaches Toronto?
8. What does Sylvia like about Carla? What gift does she bring her from Greece and why?
9. Describe Carla and Sylvia's lunch just before Sylvia brings her to the bus stop.
10. What solution does Sylvia propose when Carla confesses her unhappiness with her life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Write an essay about the author of "Runaway." Who is she? What else has she written? How is "Runaway" similar or different from her previous works?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay examining the ending of "Runaway." How did the ending fit into the storyline? Do you think the ending was effective? What theme might the ending represent? What might the author have done differently?
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