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

2. What does Hagar sell to Lottie Telford for cash?

3. When John is seven, what do the kids in town call his father?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 5, how does Doris try to sooth Hagar?

5. On the way to the hospital to deliver Marvin, Doris is scared, but doesn't admit it. What is she scared of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hagar is very attached to her things in the house. Describe a few of them.

2. What purpose does Doris serve and how is she contrasted against Hagar?

3. What are John's character traits in Chapter 5? Do you think they affect his future?

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

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

6. Toward the end of Chapter 4, needs cash in order to leave Brampton Shipley. How does Hagar get the cash and in doing so give up her pride?

7. In Chapter 2, Hagar's father reaches out his hand to her with heartfelt emotion. However, she rejects him both times. Why do you think that is?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast how Hagar views John and Marvin at birth, as children, and as men. Describe how John and Marvin really are, and how Hagars blindness in symbolic to the stone angel's.

Essay Topic 2

In her dying days, Hagar is prompted to try to help others. In what ways could she have helped others her entire life?

Essay Topic 3

Hagar's possessions are very important to her.

Part 1) Name some of her possessions and why they are important.

Part 2) What do her possessions trigger in the book when she sees them?

Part 3) What are these possessions worth to Hagar?

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