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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the young people do in the Manawaka winters?
(a) Go to Florida.
(b) Skate on the frozen river.
(c) Build snowmen.
(d) Make snowcones.

2. What kind of wedding did Hagar and Bram Shipley have?
(a) A big church wedding.
(b) A big fancy gathering at the Currie house.
(c) A small outdoor wedding at the Currie house.
(d) There was nothing elaborate about her wedding.

3. When the bus drops Hagar at the roadside at Shadow Point, what does she take pride in?
(a) Knowing she got this far on her own.
(b) He strong arch-support shoes and best hat.
(c) That she has quit smoking.
(d) How much money she has now that she cashed her pension check.

4. When John dies, a nurse urges Hagar to cry. She doesn't, why?
(a) She was already all cried out from losing Bram.
(b) She really didn't care that much for John.
(c) She didn't have any tissue.
(d) She would never allow herself to cry in front of strangers.

5. When Hagar wakes up, at the beginning of Chapter 9, who does she see?
(a) Bram and John.
(b) Marvin and Doris with Mr. Murray Lees.
(c) Dr. Corby.
(d) Charlie Bean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Hagar's father?

2. What does Murray say caused him to lose his faith?

3. What did Hagar tell her employer, Mr. Oatley, about her husband?

4. What does Hagar find out when she calls Mrs. Conner, the doctor's wife, to introduce herself?

5. The night after Bram's funeral, who was the one who cried?

(see the answer key)

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