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

2. What happened when Hagar would dance hard at parties?
(a) Boys would try to touch her hair when it fell down.
(b) She would get sick and have to stay in bed for days.
(c) Beads of sweat would drip from her forehead.
(d) A conga line would start up.

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

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

5. 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) Crackers.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hagar feel about going to Silverthreads Nursing Home?

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

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

4. What does Hagar do as she sits on the bed in the little building at Shadow Point?

5. What did Bram do after the harvest was over?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What purpose does Doris serve and how is she contrasted against Hagar?

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

4. Hagar's father's comments, as well as Lottie Dreiser's about Bramptom Shipley, only seem to fuel Hagar's idea to be with him. Why do you think that is?

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

6. Describe the imagery between Hagar and the weeds and wild flowers at the cemetery.

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

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

9. 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?

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

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