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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Hagar comment on Bram Shipley's dancing?
2. What did Hagar's father donate to the new church when she was a young girl?
3. Who were Hagar's brothers?
4. What is the Currie family war cry?
5. What did Hagar see when she lifted the sultana barrel lid at her father's store?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are John's character traits in Chapter 5? Do you think they affect his future?
2. In Chapter 2, Hagar's father reaches out his hand to her with heartfelt emotion. However, she rejects him both times. Why do you think that is?
3. Why is Hagar frustrated by her brother Matt's death?
4. Hagar's father's comments, as well as Lottie Dreiser's about Bramptom Shipley, only seem to fuel Hagar's idea to be with him. Why do you think that is?
5. In Chapter 1, how does Hagar see herself?
6. What is the role reversal that takes place between Hagar and Lottie Drieser?
7. Compare the birth of Marvin the the birth of John, and Hagar's feeling with both.
8. Hagar is very attached to her things in the house. Describe a few of them.
9. At the end of Chapter 4, why do you think Marvin decides Hagar will go to the nursing home in one week?
10. Why do you think Hagar tells her employer, Mr. Oatley, her husband died?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast how Hagar views John and Marvin at birth, as children, and as men. Describe how John and Marvin really are, and how Hagars blindness in symbolic to the stone angel's.
Essay Topic 2
Hagar sites poetry throughout the novel, site the examples and their significance.
Essay Topic 3
Marvin Shipley was caught between "two fires" meaning his mother who needed, but did not want to go to the nursing home and his wife Doris (Hagar's caregiver) who wanted Hagar to go to the nursing home and could no longer keep up with the workload because of her health. What would you have done if you were Marvin? Would you have changed your mind at any point in the novel?
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