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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hagar feel, physically, as she climbs the steps to the small night watchman's house at the cannery?
(a) She is in pain.
(b) Her feet are tired from walking.
(c) She is fit as a fiddle.
(d) She has a slight headache.

2. What does Bram tell Hagar when she says she is leaving and taking John?
(a) That he loves her dearly.
(b) That he wasn't surprised.
(c) To not let the door hit her on the way out.
(d) To take some hard-boiled eggs with her.

3. When Hagar returns to present time, she is startled by two things she is doing, what are they?
(a) Crying and telling her story out loud.
(b) Eating uncontrollably and telling her story out loud.
(c) Smoking and drinking.
(d) Crying and speaking German.

4. Why did John continue to lose jobs?
(a) He stole merchandise.
(b) Companies were going out of business.
(c) Some jobs were laying off people, others were temporary.
(d) He was lazy, like his father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hagar think the two men she loved died?

2. How did Hagar feel about horses?

3. What was Murray's son's name, and how did he die?

4. What improvements did Bram make on the Shipley place?

5. How does Elva suggest that Hagar relieve the pain in her chest?

(see the answer key)

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