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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 much time past before Jason Currie visited his first grandson?
(a) One week.
(b) Five years.
(c) Two days.
(d) He never did.

2. How much older is Bram Shipley than Hagar?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 7 years.
(c) 14 years.
(d) He is really younger than her.

3. After the bus drops Hagar off in Shadow Point, what does Hagar forget to buy at the service station for provisions?
(a) Protein bars.
(b) Water.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Crackers.

4. When was it mentioned that Bram would usually work?
(a) When he needed drinking money.
(b) All day every day.
(c) During harvest and threshing.
(d) Never, he was lazy.

5. What does Hagar sell to Lottie Telford for cash?
(a) Lots of eggs.
(b) Her silver and glass decanter.
(c) Her mother's opal earrings, silver candelabra, and Limoge china.
(d) Her mother's big chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marvin mean when he comments of being pulled between "two fires?"

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

3. What is the stone angel supposed to do?

4. What kept impinging on the cemetery plots?

5. What is the name of the lady that visits with Hagar at Silverthreads nursing home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. When Hagar's brother Daniel is dying, Matt begs her to put on their mother's old plaid shawl to comfort Daniel. Why do you think Hagar is unable to do this?

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