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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 age is John when Hagar gives him the plaid-pin of the Curries?
(a) Six.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Eight.

2. What does Marvin mean when he comments of being pulled between "two fires?"
(a) His mother and father disagree on everything.
(b) Doris wants Hagar to go to the nursing home, but Hagar doesn't want to go.
(c) Hagar wants to go to the nursing home, but Doris doesn't want her to go.
(d) He has two fire places in the house and can't decide which one to sit at.

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

4. How is the Shipley house described?
(a) Sparkling, vibrant, and beautiful.
(b) Old, unclean, and common.
(c) Gray, dirty, and smelly.
(d) Usual, filthy, and infested.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Hagar's brother's died in Chapter 1 and from what?

2. What kind of pictures hung on the walls at the Shipley house before Hagar moved in?

3. What does Hagar think about her son Marvin and his wife Doris?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1, how does Hagar see herself?

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

4. Why do you think Hagar tells her employer, Mr. Oatley, her husband died?

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

6. Why is Hagar frustrated by her brother Matt's death?

7. At the nursing home, Hagar thinks she sees someone she knows. Why is this significant?

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

9. How is Hagar's wild and headstrong nature depicted in Chapter 2?

10. In Chapter 2, Hagar's father reaches out his hand to her with heartfelt emotion. However, she rejects him both times. Why do you think that is?

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