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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the results of Hagar's stomach x-rays?
(a) No one tells Hagar the x-ray report.
(b) She has an ulcer.
(c) She has a cast iron stomach.
(d) She has stomach cancer.

2. How does Hagar tell John that he can pull himself up? It is the same thing her father told her.
(a) With hard work and determination.
(b) Sacrifice.
(c) By getting a real job.
(d) Lying and cheating your partners.

3. Why do Marvin and Doris want to send Hagar to Silverthreads?
(a) Marvin and Doris both want some time to themselves.
(b) Doris can't keep up with the workload from Hagar's bed wetting.
(c) Marvin is afraid Hagar will burn the house down with her smoking.
(d) Doris can't stand Hagar and thinks she is mean.

4. What is the stone angel?
(a) The Currie family moto.
(b) Small figurine Hagar keeps in her pocket.
(c) Yard statue standing in Hagar's front yard.
(d) A cemetery monument that used to stand over the Hagar's mother's grave.

5. What does Marvin mean when he comments of being pulled between "two fires?"
(a) Doris wants Hagar to go to the nursing home, but Hagar doesn't want to go.
(b) He has two fire places in the house and can't decide which one to sit at.
(c) His mother and father disagree on everything.
(d) Hagar wants to go to the nursing home, but Doris doesn't want her to go.

6. What kind of pictures hung on the walls at the Shipley house before Hagar moved in?
(a) Pictures of horses.
(b) Pictures of wild flowers.
(c) None.
(d) Pictures of little brown jugs.

7. What is the stone angel supposed to do?
(a) Pray to heaven.
(b) Guide the townspeople to heaven.
(c) Sing a hymn.
(d) Keep everyone safe.

8. Who is Doris' minister?
(a) Ms. Dreiser
(b) Mr. Telford
(c) Mr. Troy
(d) Mr. Currie

9. What does Hagar sell to Lottie Telford for cash?
(a) Her silver and glass decanter.
(b) Lots of eggs.
(c) Her mother's big chair.
(d) Her mother's opal earrings, silver candelabra, and Limoge china.

10. When John is seven, what do the kids in town call his father?
(a) "Bramble Shitley."
(b) Mr. Shipley.
(c) Sloppy Shipley.
(d) Sir Bramptom Shipley.

11. What does the stone angel remind Hagar of?
(a) A poem by Keates.
(b) Her mother.
(c) A favorite hymn.
(d) Long walks she used to take through the cemetery.

12. What does Hagar's father value?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Money.
(c) Math.
(d) Church.

13. What comment does Mrs. Steiner make causing Hagar to wonder how she knows so much about her?
(a) "I am a psychic"
(b) "I know who you are and what you've done."
(c) "Well if it isn't Hagar Shipley, I haven't seen you in ages."
(d) "Do you get used to life?"

14. What are Hagar's two hobbies?
(a) Playing cards and drinking.
(b) Baking bread and knitting.
(c) Drawing and singing.
(d) Remembering past time, "carping," and smoking cigarettes.

15. What is Bram Shipley's reputation?
(a) He is smart and thrifty.
(b) He is common and lazy.
(c) He is a scoundrel and not to be trusted.
(d) He is religious and faithful.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Hagar's occupation at Mr. Oatley's house?

3. Who was Hagar's father?

4. On the way to the hospital to deliver Marvin, Doris is scared, but doesn't admit it. What is she scared of?

5. What does Hagar want to do when she returns from boarding school?

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