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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What is the stone angel?
(a) Yard statue standing in Hagar's front yard.
(b) The Currie family moto.
(c) A cemetery monument that used to stand over the Hagar's mother's grave.
(d) Small figurine Hagar keeps in her pocket.

4. What did Hagar fill the glass and silver wine decanter with?
(a) Moonshine.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Water.
(d) Chokecherry wine.

5. What does the stone angel remind Hagar of?
(a) Long walks she used to take through the cemetery.
(b) A favorite hymn.
(c) A poem by Keates.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kept impinging on the cemetery plots?

2. What does Hagar tell Mrs. Steiner about the death of her son John?

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

4. Why do Marvin and Doris want to send Hagar to Silverthreads?

5. Who was Hagar's father?

(see the answer key)

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