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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hagar rarely visit her first son, Marvin, who lives nearby?
(a) His wife, Doris, is obnoxious.
(b) He doesn't want his mother to visit.
(c) She feels uncomfortable around him.
(d) She doesn't feel welcomed.

2. Why did Bram receive a warning from a Mountie?
(a) He didn't receive a warning, he was a fine upstanding citizen.
(b) He urinated on the steps of the Hagar's father's store.
(c) He was driving drunk.
(d) He sold liquor to the Indians.

3. How did Hagar feel about horses?
(a) She didn't like paintings of them, nor real ones.
(b) She thought them tasty for a Sunday brunch.
(c) She liked paintings of them, but not real ones.
(d) She liked paintings of them, and real ones.

4. Where is Bram burried?
(a) On the Shipley farm.
(b) In the Shipley plot.
(c) In the Currie plot.
(d) He wasn't, he was cremated.

5. What did Bram do after the harvest was over?
(a) Work at the Currie store.
(b) Sell liquor to the Indians.
(c) Hunting and/or drinking with Charlie Bean.
(d) Take Hagar out for a romantic diner at Silverthreads.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hagar want to do when she returns from boarding school?

2. How does John tell his mother he is distilling his own liquor?

3. How does Hagar feel about going to Silverthreads Nursing Home?

4. While seated on the veranda at Silverthreads Nursing Home, whose birth does Hagar remember?

5. What two virtues does Hagar cite to John?

(see the answer key)

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