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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the stone angel supposed to do?
(a) Sing a hymn.
(b) Guide the townspeople to heaven.
(c) Keep everyone safe.
(d) Pray to heaven.

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

3. Why did Bram receive a warning from a Mountie?
(a) He was driving drunk.
(b) He didn't receive a warning, he was a fine upstanding citizen.
(c) He urinated on the steps of the Hagar's father's store.
(d) He sold liquor to the Indians.

4. When John is seven, what do the kids in town call his father?
(a) Sloppy Shipley.
(b) Mr. Shipley.
(c) Sir Bramptom Shipley.
(d) "Bramble Shitley."

5. While seated on the veranda at Silverthreads Nursing Home, whose birth does Hagar remember?
(a) Her granddaughter Tina's birth.
(b) Her son John's birth.
(c) Her son Marvin's birth.
(d) Daniel's birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bram Shipley's reputation?

2. What is the Currie family war cry?

3. At her visit to Silverthreads, Hagar is seated on the veranda for a cup of tea. What does she think the tea tastes like?

4. Who were Hagar's brothers?

5. What does Hagar think about her son Marvin and his wife Doris?

(see the answer key)

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