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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 did Carla joke with Clark about when she first started working with him just after highschool?
(a) How annoying their boss was.
(b) How all the women were after him.
(c) How bad he was with women.
(d) How nobody wanted lessons from him.

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

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

4. Whom does Carla remind Sylvia of most?
(a) Her nieces.
(b) Her students.
(c) Mr. Jamieson's nurses.
(d) Former high school classmates.

5. What does Sylvia tell Carla she would have liked most in Greece?
(a) The beaches.
(b) The coffee.
(c) The bread.
(d) The goats.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What other gift does Sylvia bring back for Carla but does not give to her?

4. Why does Sylvia think she may have taken a liking to Carla?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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 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?

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

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

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

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