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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hagar feel about going to Silverthreads Nursing Home?
(a) She thinks the idea is premature.
(b) She doesn't want to go.
(c) She wants to take time to think about it.
(d) She is excited to go and be with people her own age.

2. What does Hagar think about her son Marvin and his wife Doris?
(a) Doris is greedy and Marvin is not ambitious.
(b) Doris is stingy and Marvin is lazy.
(c) Doris is smart and Marvin is smarter.
(d) Doris is stupid and Marvin is stupid.

3. When was it mentioned that Bram would usually work?
(a) During harvest and threshing.
(b) When he needed drinking money.
(c) All day every day.
(d) Never, he was lazy.

4. What kept impinging on the cemetery plots?
(a) Wild and native flowers.
(b) Bees and grasshoppers.
(c) Cats.
(d) Bermuda grass.

5. At the end of Chapter 4, what does Marvin tell Hagar about the nursing home?
(a) If she stops smoking she doesn't have to go.
(b) She never has to go, if she doesn't want to.
(c) In one week she is going.
(d) She is going today.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Jason Currie discipline his sons?

2. What did Hagar's father donate to the new church when she was a young girl?

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

4. How does Hagar say good-bye to her brother, Matt, when she leaves for boarding school?

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

(see the answer key)

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