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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. Who is the patient that befriends Hagar in the hospital?

2. What happened to Hagar's money that she invested in the stock market?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 8, who is the man who enters the room where Hagar sits?

4. What does Hagar decorate her hair with?

5. In the privacy of her own bedroom, why didn't Hagar cry for her dead son?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hagar try to be helpful to her roommate?

2. Why do you think Hagar does not allow herself to cry in front of strangers?

3. What is Hagar waiting for in Chapter 10, and in what other ways has she waited in the book?

4. In Chapter 9, while at the hospital, Hagar finally starts to notice that she is different from other people, in what way?

5. What turns out to be Hagar's biggest character flaws?

6. What do you see creating distance and hardness between Hagar and her sons, as well as everyone else?

7. What is Hagar's view toward religion in Chapter 8?

8. Explain the irony of Hagar being moved to a semi-private hospital room.

9. In Hagar complaining that Arlene is always at the house, and then wishing she had not said it afterward, what does this say about Hagar?

10. In Chapter 9, why do you think Hagar apologize to the nurse?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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