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

2. 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.

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

4. Who does John tell Hagar she will be like, when she leaves Bram to go find work as a housekeeper?
(a) Mavis Currie.
(b) Mrs. Steiner.
(c) Arlene Simmons.
(d) Auntie Doll.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bram Shipley's reputation?

2. What is the stone angel?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 5, how does Doris try to sooth Hagar?

4. Who did Jason Currie remarry after Hagar's mother died?

5. What did Hagar tell her employer, Mr. Oatley, about her husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Hagar's name significant?

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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