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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hagar comment on Bram Shipley's dancing?
(a) He scoots his boots nicely.
(b) He has two left feet.
(c) He is light on his feet.
(d) He dances like a prince.

2. On the bus ride home from Dr. Corby's office Hagar cries when a young lady offers her seat to her. What is Hagar still unable to cry for?
(a) The little chicks Lottie killed.
(b) Her "dead men."
(c) Soldier.
(d) The price of wheat.

3. Which of Hagar's sons does she say is like her father, Jason Currie?
(a) Matt.
(b) Charlie.
(c) John.
(d) Marvin.

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

5. Who was Hagar's father?
(a) Matt Currie, a financial advisor.
(b) Jason Shipley, a farmer.
(c) Jason Currie, an Irish merchant who ran the town's store.
(d) Jason Currie, a Scottish merchant who ran the town's store.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the bus drops Hagar at the roadside at Shadow Point, what does she take pride in?

2. How much older is Bram Shipley than Hagar?

3. What do Marvin and Doris do when they want to go out to the movies?

4. Who did Jason Currie remarry after Hagar's mother died?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hagar see John's character flaws? How does this compare her to the stone angel?

2. How is Hagar's emotional restraint again depicted in Chapter 4?

3. At the nursing home, Hagar thinks she sees someone she knows. Why is this significant?

4. Hagar is very attached to her things in the house. Describe a few of them.

5. How is the symbolic use of wings portrayed in Chapter 3?

6. When Hagar is looking back on her life, in Chapter 3, do you think she has any regrets?

7. In Chapter 1, how does Hagar see herself?

8. When Hagar's brother Daniel is dying, Matt begs her to put on their mother's old plaid shawl to comfort Daniel. Why do you think Hagar is unable to do this?

9. Hagar is obviously unwilling to give in to death. How is that seen in Chapter 3?

10. Describe the imagery between Hagar and the weeds and wild flowers at the cemetery.

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