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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) In a buggy pulled by a horse.
(b) A kind man gives her a lift.
(c) She rents a car.
(d) She walks.

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

4. Which of Hagar's brother's died in Chapter 1 and from what?
(a) Dan, scarlet fever.
(b) Dan, pneumonia.
(c) Matt, pneumonia.
(d) Matt, broken heart.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On the train ride out of town, what does John confess happened to the plaid-pin of the Curries?

2. How much older is Bram Shipley than Hagar?

3. What does Hagar's picture of Bram look like.

4. How did Hagar feel about horses?

5. What age is John when Hagar gives him the plaid-pin of the Curries?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Hagar is dressed when, in Chapter 5, she sets out for Shadow Point. What do you think this says about her?

2. Toward the end of Chapter 4, needs cash in order to leave Brampton Shipley. How does Hagar get the cash and in doing so give up her pride?

3. Hagar is very attached to her things in the house. Describe a few of them.

4. What is the role reversal that takes place between Hagar and Lottie Drieser?

5. How is Hagar's emotional restraint again depicted in Chapter 4?

6. What does Hagar's action to go to Shadow Point say about her willingness to accept her current physical state?

7. Describe some differences Hagar sees in Marvin and John.

8. Hagar is obviously unwilling to give in to death. How is that seen in Chapter 3?

9. How is the symbolic use of wings portrayed in Chapter 3?

10. In Chapter 5, it is mentioned how Hagar takes action to affect her life, one time in the present and one in her past. What were those two instances?

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