The Stone Angel | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. What is the stone angel?

A cemetery monument that used to stand over Hagar's mother's grave.

2. What is the stone angel supposed to do?

Guide the townspeople to heaven.

3. What does the stone angel remind Hagar of?

Long walks she used to take through the cemetery.

4. What kept impinging on the cemetery plots?

Wild and native flowers.

5. What are Hagar's two hobbies?

Remembering past times, "carping," and smoking cigarettes.

6. Who was Hagar's father?

Jason Currie, a Scottish merchant who ran the town's store.

7. Who were Hagar's brothers?

Matt and Dan.

8. What kind of house did the Currie's own?

Large house, the second brick house in the town.

9. How did Jason Currie discipline his sons?

With switches.

10. What did Hagar see when she lifted the sultana barrel lid at her father's store?

Mice.

11. What does Hagar's...
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