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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much older is Bram Shipley than Hagar?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 7 years.
(c) He is really younger than her.
(d) 14 years.

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

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

5. Where does Hagar deliver her first son, Marvin?
(a) At the hospital.
(b) In a barn.
(c) At home.
(d) On Main Street.

6. When the bus drops Hagar at the roadside at Shadow Point, what does she take pride in?
(a) How much money she has now that she cashed her pension check.
(b) That she has quit smoking.
(c) Knowing she got this far on her own.
(d) He strong arch-support shoes and best hat.

7. While seated on the veranda at Silverthreads Nursing Home, whose birth does Hagar remember?
(a) Her granddaughter Tina's birth.
(b) Daniel's birth.
(c) Her son Marvin's birth.
(d) Her son John's birth.

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

9. What did Hagar tell her employer, Mr. Oatley, about her husband?
(a) He died.
(b) She had never been married.
(c) He was lazy and common as dirt.
(d) He was over seas at war.

10. What is the name of the lady that visits with Hagar at Silverthreads nursing home?
(a) Mrs. Franco.
(b) Mrs. Steiner.
(c) Elva Currie.
(d) Mavis Shipley.

11. At her visit to Silverthreads, Hagar is seated on the veranda for a cup of tea. What does she think the tea tastes like?
(a) Hemlock.
(b) Jasmine.
(c) Wild flowers in spring.
(d) Dirt.

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

13. What did Hagar fill the glass and silver wine decanter with?
(a) Moonshine.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Water.
(d) Chokecherry wine.

14. What did Hagar see when she lifted the sultana barrel lid at her father's store?
(a) Oranges.
(b) Roaches.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Mice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What comment does Mrs. Steiner make causing Hagar to wonder how she knows so much about her?

2. Who did Jason Currie remarry after Hagar's mother died?

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

4. How does Hagar get to the hospital to deliver her second son, John?

5. On the train ride out of town, what does John confess happened to the plaid-pin of the Curries?

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