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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 did the young people do in the Manawaka winters?

2. What does Hagar do as she sits on the bed in the little building at Shadow Point?

3. What was the name of the horse Bram bought in Chapter 3?

4. How much older is Bram Shipley than Hagar?

5. What did Hagar's father donate to the new church when she was a young girl?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the role reversal that takes place between Hagar and Lottie Drieser?

3. How is Hagar's emotional restraint again depicted in Chapter 4?

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

5. Hagar's father's comments, as well as Lottie Dreiser's about Bramptom Shipley, only seem to fuel Hagar's idea to be with him. Why do you think that is?

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

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

8. Do you think Hagar's life would have been different if she had not practiced emotional restraint?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It is said that pride is Hagar's downfall. Site several examples. Was she prideful in her dress, speech, and/or attitude? How did she treat the people around her?

Essay Topic 2

What do the wild flowers in the cemetery reflect in Hagar? In what ways are the alike? Please provide specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Compare John Shipley to his father Bram.

Part 1) In what ways are they alike in the beginning?

Parts2) How are they more alike toward the end of the novel?

Part 3) When do you think Hagar notices their similarities?

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