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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 9 while at the cannery, before being taken to the hospital, who sympathizes with Hagar on the loss of her son, and in turn she sympathizes him on the loss of his son?
(a) Dr. Corby.
(b) Marvin and Doris.
(c) Soldier.
(d) Mr. Murray Lees.

2. How did Hagar feel about John at his birth?
(a) Full of pride and joy.
(b) Strange and uncertain.
(c) She felt an instant connection.
(d) Distant.

3. When Murray realized Hagar is ill, what does he do?
(a) Leaves and doesn't come back.
(b) Takes her to a doctor.
(c) Performs surgery in the cannery.
(d) Urges her to sleep.

4. What does Hagar sell to Lottie Telford for cash?
(a) Her mother's big chair.
(b) Her silver and glass decanter.
(c) Lots of eggs.
(d) Her mother's opal earrings, silver candelabra, and Limoge china.

5. When Marvin and Doris come to visit Hagar at the hospital again, what does Doris offer to do?
(a) Arrange the roses.
(b) Get her a bed pan.
(c) Hagar's hair.
(d) Smack her hand with a ruler if she gets out of bed again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patient that befriends Hagar in the hospital?

2. What reduces all people in the Manawaka community to the same desperate level?

3. Upon her arrival at Jess' house, with the box labeled "Clara Shipley", who does Hagar find talking to Jess?

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

5. How did Hagar feel about horses?

(see the answer key)

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