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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. Who calls Hagar by name, causing her to remember it had been a very long time since anyone called her by name?
(a) Dr. Tappen.
(b) Dr. Corby.
(c) The nurse on duty.
(d) Elva.

2. What was Telford and Lottie's plan for Arlene, to get her away from John?
(a) To go East and live with her Aunt Doll.
(b) To go East and earn money for a year.
(c) To go to the convent.
(d) To go East and raise horses.

3. How long has Mrs. Dobereiner been at the hospital?
(a) One year.
(b) One month.
(c) Seven months.
(d) Three months.

4. What does Hagar tell Mr. Oatley about why she needed a few more weeks in Manawaka?
(a) The farm needed tending to.
(b) She really liked it there.
(c) Her son died.
(d) Her brother died.

5. Hagar tells Marvin she will go straight to Silverthreads, but where does she have to go first instead and why?
(a) Hospital, something showed up on her x-rays.
(b) Her new home in Shadow Point that he just bought her.
(c) Home, to pack her things.
(d) Home, because she isn't going to Silverthreads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did John continue to lose jobs?

2. Where is Bram burried?

3. Who did Hagar and Elva both know and exchange facts about?

4. What causes Hagar to become nauseous and then fall in the woods?

5. What reduces all people in the Manawaka community to the same desperate level?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, why do you think Hagar apologize to the nurse?

2. In Chapter 7, do you think John respects his mother?

3. What do Mr. Murray Lees and Hagar have in common?

4. In the hospital, how is Hagar's soft food diet ironic?

5. Hagar's need to do things herself and not accept help is consistent throughout. How is it depicted at the end of Chapter 10?

6. Explain the irony of Hagar being moved to a semi-private hospital room.

7. In Hagar complaining that Arlene is always at the house, and then wishing she had not said it afterward, what does this say about Hagar?

8. Why does Hagar try to be helpful to her roommate?

9. What is Hagar's view toward religion in Chapter 8?

10. What turns out to be Hagar's biggest character flaws?

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