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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hagar's picture of Bram look like.
(a) He is dirty and unshaven.
(b) She doesn't have a picutre of Bram.
(c) The top of the picutre has faded away, as has her memory of Bram.
(d) He is wearing a sailor suit.

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

4. How does Hagar feel, physically, as she climbs the steps to the small night watchman's house at the cannery?
(a) She is in pain.
(b) She has a slight headache.
(c) She is fit as a fiddle.
(d) Her feet are tired from walking.

5. When Hagar returns to present time, she is startled by two things she is doing, what are they?
(a) Crying and speaking German.
(b) Eating uncontrollably and telling her story out loud.
(c) Smoking and drinking.
(d) Crying and telling her story out loud.

Short Answer Questions

1. The night after Bram's funeral, who was the one who cried?

2. How did Jason Currie discipline his sons?

3. What improvements did Bram make on the Shipley place?

4. What was the real reason that Hagar told Mr. Oatley she needed a few more weeks in Manawaka?

5. When the bus drops Hagar at the roadside at Shadow Point, what does she take pride in?

(see the answer key)

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