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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 are Hagar's two hobbies?
(a) Playing cards and drinking.
(b) Baking bread and knitting.
(c) Remembering past time, "carping," and smoking cigarettes.
(d) Drawing and singing.

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

3. Who does John's manhood remind Hagar of?
(a) Jason Currie.
(b) Bram.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Charlie Bean.

4. 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) A conga line would start up.
(d) Beads of sweat would drip from her forehead.

5. What does Hagar's father value?
(a) Church.
(b) Money.
(c) Math.
(d) Hard work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After getting married, what was Hagar waiting for at the Shipley place?

3. At the end of Chapter 4, what does Marvin tell Hagar about the nursing home?

4. What was the name of the horse Bram bought in Chapter 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Toward the end of Chapter 4, needs cash in order to leave Brampton Shipley. How does Hagar get the cash and in doing so give up her pride?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Hagar see John's character flaws? How does this compare her to the stone angel?

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

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