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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 does Sylvia give to Carla before taking her to the bus stop?
2. What word is used to describe how Sylvia feels when Carla began to cry?
3. What did Maggie say happens to everyone at some point when Sylvia was telling them about Carla?
4. What does Sylvia say about Carla in the first message she leaves on Ruth's answering machine?
5. Why does Carla keep her head down when she first gets on the bus to Toronto?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Carla and Clark meet? What did her parents think of him?
2. How does Carla decide she will inform Clark she is leaving? What does she ask Sylvia to do to help?
3. What is it about her life with Clark that Carla says she cannot stand anymore?
4. What do Maggie and Soraya suggest when Sylvia tells them what she likes about Carla? How does Sylvia feel about this?
5. 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?
6. What does Sylvia like about Carla? What gift does she bring her from Greece and why?
7. Why does Carla get off the bus before she reaches Toronto?
8. 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?
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 an essay analyzing Munro's decision to tell the story using third person point-of-view from Carla's perspective. How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in Munro of "Runaway." Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the story is effective in conveying the story’s themes.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Munro's focus on the themes of relationships as presented in the story.
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