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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the stone angel supposed to do?
(a) Sing a hymn.
(b) Keep everyone safe.
(c) Pray to heaven.
(d) Guide the townspeople to heaven.

2. What are the results of Hagar's stomach x-rays?
(a) She has stomach cancer.
(b) No one tells Hagar the x-ray report.
(c) She has an ulcer.
(d) She has a cast iron stomach.

3. What comment does Mrs. Steiner make causing Hagar to wonder how she knows so much about her?
(a) "Well if it isn't Hagar Shipley, I haven't seen you in ages."
(b) "I know who you are and what you've done."
(c) "Do you get used to life?"
(d) "I am a psychic"

4. What is the name of the children's verse that implies if Hagar had the wings of an angel or a crow, she could fly up high and spit on the people below?
(a) Fly Like an Angel
(b) If I had Wings.
(c) Fly Like a Crow.
(d) The Prisoner's Song.

5. What does Hagar tell Mrs. Steiner about the death of her son John?
(a) He was killed in the war.
(b) He died in a car accident, he was wreckless.
(c) He drank himself to death.
(d) He died in a car accident, it wasn't his fault.

6. In the beginning of Chapter 5, how does Doris try to sooth Hagar?
(a) By handing her a teddy bear.
(b) By giving her wine.
(c) By making her some tea.
(d) By asking her if she wants a sleeping pill.

7. What does Marvin mean when he comments of being pulled between "two fires?"
(a) Doris wants Hagar to go to the nursing home, but Hagar doesn't want to go.
(b) His mother and father disagree on everything.
(c) Hagar wants to go to the nursing home, but Doris doesn't want her to go.
(d) He has two fire places in the house and can't decide which one to sit at.

8. What did the young people do in the Manawaka winters?
(a) Build snowmen.
(b) Skate on the frozen river.
(c) Make snowcones.
(d) Go to Florida.

9. How does Hagar know her father is pleased with her?
(a) When he smiles at her.
(b) When he claps for her.
(c) When he gives her money.
(d) When he calls her daughter.

10. What was the name of the horse Bram bought in Chapter 3?
(a) Telford.
(b) Pineapple.
(c) Charlie Bean.
(d) Soldier.

11. Of what heritage are the Curries?
(a) Irish.
(b) Indonesian.
(c) German.
(d) Scottish.

12. In Chapter 4, why is Hagar at the doctor's office?
(a) For stomach x-rays.
(b) For a cancer screening.
(c) For back pain.
(d) For a lollipop.

13. What does the stone angel remind Hagar of?
(a) Long walks she used to take through the cemetery.
(b) A poem by Keates.
(c) A favorite hymn.
(d) Her mother.

14. Who does John tell Hagar his best friends are when they have moved to Mr. Oatley's home?
(a) Jason Currie and Telford.
(b) A doctor's son and a funeal parlor owner's son.
(c) A store owner's son and Lazarus.
(d) Marvin and Lazarus.

15. At the fish cannery, Hagar seeks shelter in the small watchman's house. She comments it does not have any paint, a fact that would annoy Marvin. Why would that annoy Marvin?
(a) Unpainted homes drive him crazy.
(b) He is a paint salesman.
(c) He loves the smell of paint fumes.
(d) He is a painter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Hagar's two hobbies?

2. After the bus drops Hagar off in Shadow Point and she purchases provisions at the service station, how does Hagar get to the fish cannery road?

3. What was Hagar allowed to take from her father's house after he died?

4. What did Hagar tell her employer, Mr. Oatley, about her husband?

5. With Marvin off to the war, who goes with Hagar to deliver eggs?

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