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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 does Hagar think about her son Marvin and his wife Doris?
(a) Doris is stupid and Marvin is stupid.
(b) Doris is greedy and Marvin is not ambitious.
(c) Doris is stingy and Marvin is lazy.
(d) Doris is smart and Marvin is smarter.

2. 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, the second brick house in the town.
(d) Large house, two floors and a basement.

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

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

5. What does Hagar think about the amenities of the small night watchman's house at the cannery?
(a) She takes pleasure in the view of the sea and thinks moving is a great adventure.
(b) She is upset about the mildewed mattress.
(c) She is happy to have a roof over her head.
(d) She thought it would do for now, but plans to get a better place.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hagar deliver her first son, Marvin?

2. How much older is Bram Shipley than Hagar?

3. After possibly embarrassing Doris at Dr. Corby's office by talking to loud, what does Hagar promise to do?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Compare the birth of Marvin the the birth of John, and Hagar's feeling with both.

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

5. At the end of Chapter 4, why do you think Marvin decides Hagar will go to the nursing home in one week?

6. When Hagar is looking back on her life, in Chapter 3, do you think she has any regrets?

7. Comment on the irony that the stone angel was "doubly blind."

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

9. What are John's character traits in Chapter 5? Do you think they affect his future?

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

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