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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 Hagar fear about the nursing home?
(a) Once she is there, she will not be able to leave.
(b) They won't have her favorite cable channel.
(c) The food will kill her.
(d) She will be forgotten.

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

3. What has been John's therapy for his dying father?
(a) Biting on a bullet.
(b) Hydrocodone.
(c) Stretching and good nutrition.
(d) Letting him drink the liquor he distilled.

4. What was Murray's son's name, and how did he die?
(a) Henry, smoke inhalation.
(b) Donnie, smoke inhalation.
(c) Charlie, hypothermia.
(d) Donnie, drinking.

5. Who was Hagar's father?
(a) Jason Shipley, a farmer.
(b) Matt Currie, a financial advisor.
(c) Jason Currie, an Irish merchant who ran the town's store.
(d) Jason Currie, a Scottish merchant who ran the town's store.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hagar tell Mrs. Steiner about the death of her son John?

2. After the bus drops Hagar off in Shadow Point and she purchases provisions at the service station, how does Hagar get to the fish cannery road?

3. How much time past before Jason Currie visited his first grandson?

4. What does Bram tell Hagar when she says she is leaving and taking John?

5. Who does Hagar form and alliance with in hopes of keeping John and Arlene from marrying?

(see the answer key)

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