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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 is Carla crying about at Sylvia's?

2. Where does Carla's brother live?

3. Where do Carla's mother and father live?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 discussing the setting and time period of "Runaway." In what ways does the time period and setting impact your understanding of the story as well as the themes?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the use of dialogue vs the use of description. Look at how each is used in the story and what makes these uses effective or ineffective. Explore the moments when conversations are described rather than the dialogue shown. Consider why they author may have chosen to show conversations in this way and whether or not it was effective.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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