2. How does Hagar get to the hospital to deliver her second son, John?
(a) Marvin drives her to the hospital.
(b) She delivers him at home.
(c) She drives herself.
(d) Bram drives her down the Main Street of town.

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

4. What is Bram Shipley's reputation?
(a) He is smart and thrifty.
(b) He is common and lazy.
(c) He is a scoundrel and not to be trusted.
(d) He is religious and faithful.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. After possibly embarrassing Doris at Dr. Corby's office by talking to loud, what does Hagar promise to do?
(a) Speak softly, but carry a big stick.
(b) Only speak when spoken to.
(c) Not open her mouth again.
(d) Speak softly from now on.

12. When the bus drops Hagar at the roadside at Shadow Point, what does she take pride in?
(a) That she has quit smoking.
(b) How much money she has now that she cashed her pension check.
(c) He strong arch-support shoes and best hat.
(d) Knowing she got this far on her own.

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

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

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