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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. When Hagar and John go to town to sell eggs, who does she see flirting with John?
2. Who did Hagar and Elva both know and exchange facts about?
3. Hagar tells Marvin she will go straight to Silverthreads, but where does she have to go first instead and why?
4. Sandra, Hagar's roommate in the hospital, is angry with Hagar when she is wheeled back in after surgery to remove her appendix. Why is Sandra angry with Hagar?
5. When Hagar returns to present time, she is startled by two things she is doing, what are they?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how Hagar feels physically and mentally in the beginning of Chapter 7.
2. Describe the irony, at the end of Chapter 6, of Bram being buried in the Currie plot, and having the Shipley name carved on the other side of the Currie stone.
3. In Chapter 7, do you think John respects his mother?
4. Explain the irony of Hagar being moved to a semi-private hospital room.
5. In Chapter 9, why do you think Hagar apologize to the nurse?
6. Lottie Dreiser does not remember the incident described about the chicks. What does this say about Hagar as a narrator?
7. What do you think putting on pink lipstick does to the stone angel?
8. In the hospital, how is Hagar's soft food diet ironic?
9. Make comparisons between John and his own liquor made from potato peelings.
10. In Chapter 7, Hagar's fear of the dark is admitted. Why do you think she has never told anyone she was afraid of the dark?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Hagar notes that she is different from other people. Describe how she does not understand the relationship between:
Part 1) Marvin and Doris.
Part 2) Tom and Elva.
Essay Topic 2
They say hindsight is 20/20. As an old woman Hagar looks back and sees how her life could have turned out differently if she had acted differently. Name a way her life could have been different:
Part 1) as a girl.
Part 2) as a married woman.
Part 3) as a mother.
Part 4) as an old lady.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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