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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carla misspell in her letter to Clark?
(a) Alright.
(b) At least.
(c) Away.
(d) A lot.

2. What does Carla tell Sylvia when she asks how life has been there while she was in Greece?
(a) It has been boring without Sylvia.
(b) It has been the same as ever.
(c) It has been raining a lot.
(d) It has been beautiful and sunny.

3. Why does Carla keep her head down when she first gets on the bus to Toronto?
(a) So nobody will talk to her.
(b) In case someone who knows Clark is on the bus.
(c) So nobody will see her crying.
(d) So Clark will not see.

4. What word is used to describe how Sylvia feels when Carla began to cry?
(a) Angry.
(b) Empathetic.
(c) Helpless.
(d) Appalled.

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?
(a) Authentic.
(b) Inspiring.
(c) Stable.
(d) Exciting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Carla's stepfather call Clark?

3. What gift does Sylvia bring Carla from Greece?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

(see the answer keys)

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