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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Bram do after the harvest was over?
(a) Sell liquor to the Indians.
(b) Work at the Currie store.
(c) Take Hagar out for a romantic diner at Silverthreads.
(d) Hunting and/or drinking with Charlie Bean.

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

5. What did the young people do in the Manawaka winters?
(a) Go to Florida.
(b) Build snowmen.
(c) Skate on the frozen river.
(d) Make snowcones.

6. What kind of house did the Currie's own?
(a) Large house, the second brick house in the town.
(b) Small house without plumbing or electricity.
(c) Small house with indoor plumbing.
(d) Large house, two floors and a basement.

7. How did Hagar feel about horses?
(a) She liked paintings of them, and real ones.
(b) She thought them tasty for a Sunday brunch.
(c) She liked paintings of them, but not real ones.
(d) She didn't like paintings of them, nor real ones.

8. What does Hagar find out when she calls Mrs. Conner, the doctor's wife, to introduce herself?
(a) The Conners have a daughter, who looks like a boy.
(b) The Conners don't have a son.
(c) The Conners are getting a divorce and moving away.
(d) The Conner's son is adopted.

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

10. On the bus ride home from Dr. Corby's office Hagar cries when a young lady offers her seat to her. What is Hagar still unable to cry for?
(a) The price of wheat.
(b) The little chicks Lottie killed.
(c) Soldier.
(d) Her "dead men."

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

12. With Marvin off to the war, who goes with Hagar to deliver eggs?
(a) Bram.
(b) Jason Currie.
(c) Aunt Doll.
(d) John.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Hagar tell her employer, Mr. Oatley, about her husband?

3. What does Bram tell Hagar when she says she is leaving and taking John?

4. At the end of Chapter 4, what does Marvin tell Hagar about the nursing home?

5. Who does John tell Hagar she will be like, when she leaves Bram to go find work as a housekeeper?

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