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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hagar rarely visit her first son, Marvin, who lives nearby?
(a) He doesn't want his mother to visit.
(b) His wife, Doris, is obnoxious.
(c) She doesn't feel welcomed.
(d) She feels uncomfortable around him.

2. What does Hagar tell Mrs. Steiner about the death of her son John?
(a) He was killed in the war.
(b) He died in a car accident, it wasn't his fault.
(c) He died in a car accident, he was wreckless.
(d) He drank himself to death.

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

4. Upon her arrival at Jess' house, with the box labeled "Clara Shipley", who does Hagar find talking to Jess?
(a) John, asking about their father.
(b) Marvin.
(c) Arlene Simmons.
(d) Christina.

5. What does Bram tell Hagar when she says she is leaving and taking John?
(a) To not let the door hit her on the way out.
(b) That he loves her dearly.
(c) To take some hard-boiled eggs with her.
(d) That he wasn't surprised.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Hagar returns to Manawaka when Bram becomes very sick. Upon seeing Hagar for the first time in years, Bram doesn't recognize Hagar at first. Later, who does he tell her she reminds him of?

3. What does Hagar's picture of Bram look like.

4. When John is seven, what do the kids in town call his father?

5. What has been John's therapy for his dying father?

(see the answer key)

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