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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hagar feel, physically, as she climbs the steps to the small night watchman's house at the cannery?
(a) She is fit as a fiddle.
(b) Her feet are tired from walking.
(c) She is in pain.
(d) She has a slight headache.

2. How did Jason Currie discipline his sons?
(a) With harsh words.
(b) With a belt.
(c) With trips to the library.
(d) With switches.

3. 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) He loves the smell of paint fumes.
(b) Unpainted homes drive him crazy.
(c) He is a painter.
(d) He is a paint salesman.

4. 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) Wild flowers in spring.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Hemlock.
(d) Jasmine.

5. What does Bram tell Hagar when she says she is leaving and taking John?
(a) To take some hard-boiled eggs with her.
(b) That he wasn't surprised.
(c) To not let the door hit her on the way out.
(d) That he loves her dearly.

6. 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) The dark.
(c) Needles.
(d) Potholes in the street.

7. Which of Hagar's sons does she say is like her father, Jason Currie?
(a) Matt.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Marvin.
(d) John.

8. What kept impinging on the cemetery plots?
(a) Cats.
(b) Bermuda grass.
(c) Bees and grasshoppers.
(d) Wild and native flowers.

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

10. In the beginning of Chapter 5, how does Doris try to sooth Hagar?
(a) By asking her if she wants a sleeping pill.
(b) By handing her a teddy bear.
(c) By giving her wine.
(d) By making her some tea.

11. 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 Currie, a Scottish merchant who ran the town's store.
(d) Jason Shipley, a farmer.

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

13. After getting married, what was Hagar waiting for at the Shipley place?
(a) Indoor plumbing.
(b) A prince on a white horse.
(c) New furniture.
(d) She didn't know what she was waiting for.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stone angel supposed to do?

2. What does Hagar find out when she calls Mrs. Conner, the doctor's wife, to introduce herself?

3. What is the name of the man Hagar thinks she recognizes at the small summer house?

4. What does Hagar sell to Lottie Telford for cash?

5. How did Bram Shipley spend his and Hagar's money?

(see the answer keys)

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