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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the fish cannery, Hagar seeks shelter in the small watchman's house. She comments it does not have any paint, a fact that would annoy Marvin. Why would that annoy Marvin?
(a) Unpainted homes drive him crazy.
(b) He is a paint salesman.
(c) He is a painter.
(d) He loves the smell of paint fumes.

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

3. 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?"

4. On the way to the hospital to deliver Marvin, Doris is scared, but doesn't admit it. What is she scared of?
(a) That she could die.
(b) Potholes in the street.
(c) Needles.
(d) The dark.

5. How did Hagar feel about John at his birth?
(a) Distant.
(b) Full of pride and joy.
(c) Strange and uncertain.
(d) She felt an instant connection.

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

7. Who does John tell Hagar his best friends are when they have moved to Mr. Oatley's home?
(a) Jason Currie and Telford.
(b) A store owner's son and Lazarus.
(c) Marvin and Lazarus.
(d) A doctor's son and a funeal parlor owner's son.

8. Who did Jason Currie remarry after Hagar's mother died?
(a) Arlene Dreiser.
(b) He didn't remarry.
(c) Aunt Doll.
(d) Lottie Dreiser.

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

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

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

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

13. What is the name of the children's verse that implies if Hagar had the wings of an angel or a crow, she could fly up high and spit on the people below?
(a) Fly Like a Crow.
(b) Fly Like an Angel
(c) If I had Wings.
(d) The Prisoner's Song.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Hagar feel about horses?

2. How does Hagar refer to the house when her, Marvin, and Doris leave Silverthreads?

3. When the bus drops Hagar at the roadside at Shadow Point, what does she take pride in?

4. What did Bram do after the harvest was over?

5. Who is Doris' minister?

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