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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hagar want to do when she returns from boarding school?
(a) Become a fire inspector.
(b) Become a school teacher.
(c) Become a wife and mother.
(d) Become a minister.

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

3. How much money did Hagar get from her father?
(a) No money, but she got the store.
(b) $10,000.
(c) None.
(d) $500,000,000,000.

4. How does Hagar say good-bye to her brother, Matt, when she leaves for boarding school?
(a) With a handshake and a wave from the train.
(b) With a very cold good-bye, however she does cry after boarding the train.
(c) With her nose in the air and a brush of her shoulder.
(d) With a warm hug and bitter tears.

5. Since Marvin manages her money, what money does Hagar plan to use to get to Shadow Point, ?
(a) She plans to get a job.
(b) She plans to sell more limoge china.
(c) She plans to take money from Doris' purse.
(d) She plans to use her pension check.

6. In Chapter 4, why is Hagar at the doctor's office?
(a) For a cancer screening.
(b) For a lollipop.
(c) For stomach x-rays.
(d) For back pain.

7. How much time past before Jason Currie visited his first grandson?
(a) One week.
(b) He never did.
(c) Five years.
(d) Two days.

8. At the end of Chapter 4, what does Marvin tell Hagar about the nursing home?
(a) In one week she is going.
(b) If she stops smoking she doesn't have to go.
(c) She is going today.
(d) She never has to go, if she doesn't want to.

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

10. What did Hagar's father donate to the new church when she was a young girl?
(a) Stained glass windows.
(b) A chair.
(c) A stone angel.
(d) Silver candlesticks.

11. What is the name of the man Hagar thinks she recognizes at the small summer house?
(a) Soldier.
(b) John.
(c) Charlie Bean.
(d) His name wasn't mentioned and he isn't who she thought he was.

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

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

14. How does Hagar refer to the house when her, Marvin, and Doris leave Silverthreads?
(a) As her house and no one elses.
(b) As her, Marvin, and Doris' house equally.
(c) As John's house.
(d) As Marvin and Doris' house.

15. What does Hagar's picture of Bram look like.
(a) The top of the picutre has faded away, as has her memory of Bram.
(b) She doesn't have a picutre of Bram.
(c) He is dirty and unshaven.
(d) He is wearing a sailor suit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what heritage are the Curries?

2. Why do Marvin and Doris want to send Hagar to Silverthreads?

3. Who does John's manhood remind Hagar of?

4. What kind of wedding did Hagar and Bram Shipley have?

5. What does Hagar's father value?

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