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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. In the privacy of her own bedroom, why didn't Hagar cry for her dead son?
(a) She didn't have any tissue.
(b) She had held back the tears too long and couldn't cry.
(c) She really didn't care that much for John.
(d) She was already all cried out from losing Bram.

2. What caused the death of John and Arlene?
(a) A freight train hit them head on while they were driving across the trestle bridge.
(b) Drinking John's potato liquor.
(c) A plague of locusts.
(d) Broken hearts, when Arlene left for the East.

3. Hagar asks about Doris and Marvin comments that she has had one of her "spells." What is wrong with Doris?
(a) Her heart isn't good.
(b) She is going through menopause.
(c) She is a raging alcoholic.
(d) She has vertigo.

4. What did Arlene have to do in order to bring John home?
(a) Learn how to drive.
(b) Find the car keys.
(c) Stand up to her parents.
(d) Figure out how to shift gears.

5. When Hagar returns to present time, she is startled by two things she is doing, what are they?
(a) Crying and telling her story out loud.
(b) Smoking and drinking.
(c) Crying and speaking German.
(d) Eating uncontrollably and telling her story out loud.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hagar feel about her world in the beginning of Chapter 10?

2. What do Hagar and Sandra, her roommate in the hospital, have in common?

3. What does Hagar find when she is cleaning the attic?

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

5. Why does Hagar think the two men she loved died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Make comparisons between John and his own liquor made from potato peelings.

2. In Chapter 9, while at the hospital, Hagar finally starts to notice that she is different from other people, in what way?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. In the hospital what is the ultimate humiliation for Hagar, that causes her to have to give up total control? Does she accept this gracefully?

9. What do you think putting on pink lipstick does to the stone angel?

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

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