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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the bus drops Hagar off in Shadow Point, what does Hagar forget to buy at the service station for provisions?
(a) Crackers.
(b) Protein bars.
(c) Water.
(d) Chocolate.

2. How does Hagar feel about going to Silverthreads Nursing Home?
(a) She wants to take time to think about it.
(b) She doesn't want to go.
(c) She thinks the idea is premature.
(d) She is excited to go and be with people her own age.

3. What do Marvin and Doris do when they want to go out to the movies?
(a) They tie Hagar to the bed.
(b) They take Hagar with them.
(c) They arrange for a sitter for Hagar.
(d) They tell Hagar to be good and leave.

4. What caused Hagar to never attend church again?
(a) Her father telling her she wasn't welcome anymore.
(b) Bram's loud comment, "Preach on! Preach on sinner!"
(c) The preacher's shoes didn't match his robes.
(d) Bram's loud comment, "Won't the saintly bastard ever shut his trap?"

5. On the train ride out of town, what does John confess happened to the plaid-pin of the Curries?
(a) He lost it.
(b) He traded it to Lazarus Tonnerre for a jackknife.
(c) He dropped it in the well.
(d) He gave it to Marvin.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hagar feel about John at his birth?

2. After possibly embarrassing Doris at Dr. Corby's office by talking to loud, what does Hagar promise to do?

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

4. At her visit to Silverthreads, Hagar is seated on the veranda for a cup of tea. What does she think the tea tastes like?

5. After Bram dies, how did Hagar soothe herself during this time in Manawaka?

(see the answer key)

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