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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the beginning of Chapter 5, how does Doris try to sooth Hagar?
(a) By making her some tea.
(b) By giving her wine.
(c) By handing her a teddy bear.
(d) By asking her if she wants a sleeping pill.

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

4. With Marvin off to the war, who goes with Hagar to deliver eggs?
(a) Jason Currie.
(b) Aunt Doll.
(c) John.
(d) Bram.

5. What does Hagar think about the amenities of the small night watchman's house at the cannery?
(a) She is happy to have a roof over her head.
(b) She takes pleasure in the view of the sea and thinks moving is a great adventure.
(c) She is upset about the mildewed mattress.
(d) She thought it would do for now, but plans to get a better place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Hagar's two hobbies?

2. What did the young people do in the Manawaka winters?

3. At the end of Chapter 4, what does Marvin tell Hagar about the nursing home?

4. What did Hagar see when she lifted the sultana barrel lid at her father's store?

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

(see the answer key)

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