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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 does John tell his mother he is distilling his own liquor?
(a) From sweaty socks.
(b) From grapes growing on the farm.
(c) From potato peelings.
(d) From corn growing on the farm.

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

3. What reduces all people in the Manawaka community to the same desperate level?
(a) The stock market crash.
(b) A polio outbreak.
(c) The new king.
(d) There is a drought.

4. What kind of diet did Hagar's doctor order for her?
(a) Soft food.
(b) Low acid.
(c) No diet, she can eat anything she wants.
(d) No fat.

5. Where is Bram burried?
(a) In the Shipley plot.
(b) In the Currie plot.
(c) He wasn't, he was cremated.
(d) On the Shipley farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hagar's roommate needs a bedpan, but her nurse doesn't come. What does Hagar do?

2. When Hagar wakes up, at the beginning of Chapter 9, who does she see?

3. What does Hagar notice about the little girl and boy playing house?

4. What happens when Hagar offers some food to the children?

5. Even though Marvin hated smoking, what does he give Hagar?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the irony, at the end of Chapter 6, of Bram being buried in the Currie plot, and having the Shipley name carved on the other side of the Currie stone.

3. In Chapter 7, Hagar sees that Arlene is making the same mistakes she did. How is this true?

4. What do you see creating distance and hardness between Hagar and her sons, as well as everyone else?

5. How is John's character forming in Chapter 6?

6. Why do you think Hagar does not allow herself to cry in front of strangers?

7. Compare Hagar and Doris. Has their relationship changed during this book?

8. 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?

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

10. Having never said a kind word about Bram, why do you think Hagar tells Elva her husband had been very handsome?

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