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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hagar do as she sits on the bed in the little building at Shadow Point?
(a) Prays.
(b) Knits and sings hymns.
(c) Eats chocolate and cheese.
(d) Watches the darkness come.

2. Of what heritage are the Curries?
(a) Indonesian.
(b) Irish.
(c) Scottish.
(d) German.

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

4. Who is Doris' minister?
(a) Ms. Dreiser
(b) Mr. Troy
(c) Mr. Telford
(d) Mr. Currie

5. 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) He is dirty and unshaven.
(c) She doesn't have a picutre of Bram.
(d) He is wearing a sailor suit.

6. Who were Hagar's brothers?
(a) John and Telford.
(b) Matt and Dan.
(c) Marvin and Dan.
(d) Matt and Marvin.

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

8. Why did Bram receive a warning from a Mountie?
(a) He was driving drunk.
(b) He didn't receive a warning, he was a fine upstanding citizen.
(c) He urinated on the steps of the Hagar's father's store.
(d) He sold liquor to the Indians.

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

10. What comment does Mrs. Steiner make causing Hagar to wonder how she knows so much about her?
(a) "Do you get used to life?"
(b) "Well if it isn't Hagar Shipley, I haven't seen you in ages."
(c) "I am a psychic"
(d) "I know who you are and what you've done."

11. After the bus drops Hagar off in Shadow Point and she purchases provisions at the service station, how does Hagar get to the fish cannery road?
(a) A kind man gives her a lift.
(b) She rents a car.
(c) In a buggy pulled by a horse.
(d) She walks.

12. 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) Her "dead men."
(b) The little chicks Lottie killed.
(c) Soldier.
(d) The price of wheat.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Hagar's two hobbies?

2. What kept impinging on the cemetery plots?

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

4. After the bus drops Hagar off in Shadow Point, what does Hagar forget to buy at the service station for provisions?

5. When was it mentioned that Bram would usually work?

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