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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man Hagar thinks she recognizes at the small summer house?

2. How does Hagar respond when Mrs. Steiner says she hope to see Hagar again?

3. What does the stone angel remind Hagar of?

4. What did Hagar see when she lifted the sultana barrel lid at her father's store?

5. How much time past before Jason Currie visited his first grandson?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is the symbolic use of wings portrayed in Chapter 3?

3. Why is Hagar frightened when Marvin and Doris tell her they want to sell the house?

4. When Hagar is looking back on her life, in Chapter 3, do you think she has any regrets?

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. What does Hagar's action to go to Shadow Point say about her willingness to accept her current physical state?

10. In Chapter 5, it is mentioned how Hagar takes action to affect her life, one time in the present and one in her past. What were those two instances?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do you see John Shipley's death being forshadowed in Chapters 6, 7, and 8?

Essay Topic 2

How is the name Hagar significant? How does Hagar feel about her name? Who are the two people in the novel who call Hagar by her name and why is it worth noting?

Essay Topic 3

They say hindsight is 20/20. As an old woman Hagar looks back and sees how her life could have turned out differently if she had acted differently. Name a way her life could have been different:

Part 1) as a girl.

Part 2) as a married woman.

Part 3) as a mother.

Part 4) as an old lady.

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