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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hagar get to the hospital to deliver her second son, John?
(a) Marvin drives her to the hospital.
(b) She drives herself.
(c) Bram drives her down the Main Street of town.
(d) She delivers him at home.

2. What caused the death of John and Arlene?
(a) Broken hearts, when Arlene left for the East.
(b) A freight train hit them head on while they were driving across the trestle bridge.
(c) Drinking John's potato liquor.
(d) A plague of locusts.

3. After Bram dies, how did Hagar soothe herself during this time in Manawaka?
(a) Completely cleaning the Shipley house, even the attic.
(b) Visiting friends.
(c) Walking in the cemetery.
(d) Drinking John's potato liquor.

4. What does Hagar find out when she calls Mrs. Conner, the doctor's wife, to introduce herself?
(a) The Conners don't have a son.
(b) The Conner's son is adopted.
(c) The Conners have a daughter, who looks like a boy.
(d) The Conners are getting a divorce and moving away.

5. After losing jobs, and not having money to go to college, what does John decided to do?
(a) Go to the war.
(b) Start selling Oriental wives, like Mr. Oatley.
(c) Go into show business.
(d) Return to Manawaka and the Shipley farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the privacy of her own bedroom, why didn't Hagar cry for her dead son?

2. Upon her arrival at Jess' house, with the box labeled "Clara Shipley", who does Hagar find talking to Jess?

3. What did Bram do after the harvest was over?

4. What reduces all people in the Manawaka community to the same desperate level?

5. How did Jason Currie discipline his sons?

(see the answer key)

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