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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What causes Hagar to cry on the bus ride home from Dr. Corby's office?
(a) A young woman offered Hagar her seat.
(b) The bus hits a bird.
(c) She gets chewing gum stuck on her new shoes.
(d) She sits on a pin.

2. What caused Hagar to never attend church again?
(a) Bram's loud comment, "Won't the saintly bastard ever shut his trap?"
(b) Bram's loud comment, "Preach on! Preach on sinner!"
(c) Her father telling her she wasn't welcome anymore.
(d) The preacher's shoes didn't match his robes.

3. When it is clear that Bram is dying, Marvin comes to visit him. Hagar overhears Marvin tell Bram something that she wishes she could also say to Bram. What is it?
(a) You are important to me.
(b) We will be fine.
(c) Go to hell.
(d) I am sorry.

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

5. Why does Hagar return to Manawaka and the Shipley farm?
(a) There is a drought.
(b) John broke his leg.
(c) Bram is dead.
(d) Bram is really sick, and dying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two virtues does Hagar cite to John?

2. What does Hagar want to do when she returns from boarding school?

3. How does Hagar feel, physically, as she climbs the steps to the small night watchman's house at the cannery?

4. While seated on the veranda at Silverthreads Nursing Home, whose birth does Hagar remember?

5. Why didn't John want to apply for a scholarship or loan to go to college?

(see the answer key)

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