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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 Bram do after the harvest was over?
2. What did Hagar tell her employer, Mr. Oatley, about her husband?
3. What are Hagar's two hobbies?
4. Why do Marvin and Doris want to send Hagar to Silverthreads?
5. Who was Hagar's father?
Short Essay Questions
1. At the end of Chapter 4, why do you think Marvin decides Hagar will go to the nursing home in one week?
2. Hagar is very attached to her things in the house. Describe a few of them.
3. Describe some differences Hagar sees in Marvin and John.
4. How is Hagar's wild and headstrong nature depicted in Chapter 2?
5. 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?
6. Compare the birth of Marvin the the birth of John, and Hagar's feeling with both.
7. Do you think Hagar's life would have been different if she had not practiced emotional restraint?
8. Describe the imagery between Hagar and the weeds and wild flowers at the cemetery.
9. 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?
10. How does Hagar see John's character flaws? How does this compare her to the stone angel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Hagar notes that she is different from other people. Describe how she does not understand the relationship between:
Part 1) Marvin and Doris.
Part 2) Tom and Elva.
Essay Topic 2
Hagar is unable to show emotion, and unable to cry when John dies. Hagar is unable to cry for her "dead men." Why do you think Hagar is unable to show emotion? Site examples to back up your response.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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