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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hagar's picture of Bram look like.
(a) He is dirty and unshaven.
(b) She doesn't have a picutre of Bram.
(c) The top of the picutre has faded away, as has her memory of Bram.
(d) He is wearing a sailor suit.

2. Why does Hagar rarely visit her first son, Marvin, who lives nearby?
(a) His wife, Doris, is obnoxious.
(b) He doesn't want his mother to visit.
(c) She doesn't feel welcomed.
(d) She feels uncomfortable around him.

3. What does Hagar do as she sits on the bed in the little building at Shadow Point?
(a) Prays.
(b) Eats chocolate and cheese.
(c) Knits and sings hymns.
(d) Watches the darkness come.

4. What was Murray's son's name, and how did he die?
(a) Donnie, drinking.
(b) Donnie, smoke inhalation.
(c) Charlie, hypothermia.
(d) Henry, smoke inhalation.

5. How much money did Hagar get from her father?
(a) No money, but she got the store.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $500,000,000,000.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of pictures hung on the walls at the Shipley house before Hagar moved in?

2. What has been John's therapy for his dying father?

3. What causes Hagar to cry on the bus ride home from Dr. Corby's office?

4. How does Hagar feel, physically, as she climbs the steps to the small night watchman's house at the cannery?

5. What does Hagar think about her son Marvin and his wife Doris?

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