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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. How did Hagar feel about horses?
(a) She didn't like paintings of them, nor real ones.
(b) She thought them tasty for a Sunday brunch.
(c) She liked paintings of them, and real ones.
(d) She liked paintings of them, but not real ones.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time past before Jason Currie visited his first grandson?

2. What is Bram Shipley's reputation?

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

4. In Chapter 4, why is Hagar at the doctor's office?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Hagar frightened when Marvin and Doris tell her they want to sell the house?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Do you think Hagar's life would have been different if she had not practiced emotional restraint?

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