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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Hagar say good-bye to her brother, Matt, when she leaves for boarding school?
(a) With a very cold good-bye, however she does cry after boarding the train.
(b) With a handshake and a wave from the train.
(c) With her nose in the air and a brush of her shoulder.
(d) With a warm hug and bitter tears.

3. How much money did Hagar get from her father?
(a) No money, but she got the store.
(b) None.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $500,000,000,000.

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

5. In Chapter 4, why is Hagar at the doctor's office?
(a) For a cancer screening.
(b) For back pain.
(c) For a lollipop.
(d) For stomach x-rays.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marvin mean when he comments of being pulled between "two fires?"

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

3. What is the stone angel supposed to do?

4. What is the name of the man Hagar thinks she recognizes at the small summer house?

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

(see the answer key)

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