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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 do Hagar and Sandra, her roommate in the hospital, have in common?
2. When it is clear that Bram is dying, Marvin comes to visit him. Hagar overhears Marvin tell Bram something that she wishes she could also say to Bram. What is it?
3. What happened to Hagar's money that she invested in the stock market?
4. In the privacy of her own bedroom, why didn't Hagar cry for her dead son?
5. After John's death, Hagar packs up and moves back to be Mr. Oatley's housekeeper. He dies a year later. How much money does he leave her?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Hagar view the nursing home?
2. Having never said a kind word about Bram, why do you think Hagar tells Elva her husband had been very handsome?
3. Compare Hagar and Doris. Has their relationship changed during this book?
4. Describe how Hagar feels physically and mentally in the beginning of Chapter 7.
5. Describe the irony, at the end of Chapter 6, of Bram being buried in the Currie plot, and having the Shipley name carved on the other side of the Currie stone.
6. In Chapter 7, do you think John respects his mother?
7. 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?
8. Explain the irony of Hagar being moved to a semi-private hospital room.
9. What is Hagar's view toward religion in Chapter 8?
10. In Chapter 9, while at the hospital, Hagar finally starts to notice that she is different from other people, in what way?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
History repeats itself. In what ways is Arlene making the same mistakes Hagar made at her age?
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
Throughout the novel we see Hagar throw herself into work, for example after marriage and at Mr. Oately's. Why do you think she does this?
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