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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Bram Shipley spend his and Hagar's money?
(a) On schemes that did not make any money.
(b) On dancing siamese cats to sell to the circus.
(c) On dairy cows to sell milk.
(d) On a successful beehive.

2. Why do Marvin and Doris want to send Hagar to Silverthreads?
(a) Doris can't keep up with the workload from Hagar's bed wetting.
(b) Doris can't stand Hagar and thinks she is mean.
(c) Marvin is afraid Hagar will burn the house down with her smoking.
(d) Marvin and Doris both want some time to themselves.

3. How does Hagar tell John that he can pull himself up? It is the same thing her father told her.
(a) Lying and cheating your partners.
(b) Sacrifice.
(c) By getting a real job.
(d) With hard work and determination.

4. Why didn't John want to apply for a scholarship or loan to go to college?
(a) He said he didn't want to leave Arlene.
(b) He didn't know why he should since is mother made so much money with her stocks.
(c) He said he didn't have the brains.
(d) He said he was too old and didn't have the brains.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hagar rarely visit her first son, Marvin, who lives nearby?

2. How does Hagar respond when Mrs. Steiner says she hope to see Hagar again?

3. Why did Bram receive a warning from a Mountie?

4. What kind of pictures hung on the walls at the Shipley house before Hagar moved in?

5. On the train ride out of town, what does John confess happened to the plaid-pin of the Curries?

(see the answer key)

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