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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 18 - 27 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Carla receive a letter from at the end of the story?
(a) Mrs. Jamieson.
(b) Ruth Stiles.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her brother.

2. What is Carla crying about at Sylvia's?
(a) What Leon had done to her.
(b) Losing Flora.
(c) Life with her husband.
(d) Lying to Sylvia.

3. Where does Clark tell Sylvia that Carla is the evening he stops at her house?
(a) Home in bed.
(b) Buried in the woods.
(c) At her parent's house.
(d) In Toronto.

4. What often happened with Sylvia's young female students who "hung around her worshipfully" (9)?
(a) Mr. Jamieson had affairs with them.
(b) They became like daughters to Sylvia.
(c) They got on Sylvia's nerves.
(d) Sylvia had affairs with them.

5. What did Carla's mother tell her in the letter she wrote her after Carla ran off with Clark?
(a) You'll come crawling back.
(b) Don't ever come back.
(c) I wish you the best.
(d) You don't know what you're leaving behind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carla misspell in her letter to Clark?

2. What does Carla think she might find if she walks in the woods in the evening at the end of the story?

3. What had Leon Jamieson done with his writings before his death?

4. Who does Clark see in the haze when he is at Sylvia's house the night she had brought Carla to the bus depot?

5. How does Carla decide she will inform Clark of her departure?

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