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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hagar see when she lifted the sultana barrel lid at her father's store?
(a) Mice.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Oranges.
(d) Roaches.

2. What happened to Hagar's money that she invested in the stock market?
(a) She forgot about it.
(b) She doubled what she put in.
(c) She took it out and bought her limoge china back from Lottie Telford.
(d) She lost it in the stock market crash.

3. With Marvin off to the war, who goes with Hagar to deliver eggs?
(a) Bram.
(b) Jason Currie.
(c) Aunt Doll.
(d) John.

4. When the bus drops Hagar at the roadside at Shadow Point, what does she take pride in?
(a) He strong arch-support shoes and best hat.
(b) That she has quit smoking.
(c) How much money she has now that she cashed her pension check.
(d) Knowing she got this far on her own.

5. What does Marvin mean when he comments of being pulled between "two fires?"
(a) His mother and father disagree on everything.
(b) Hagar wants to go to the nursing home, but Doris doesn't want her to go.
(c) He has two fire places in the house and can't decide which one to sit at.
(d) Doris wants Hagar to go to the nursing home, but Hagar doesn't want to go.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Arlene Simmons bring John home one night?

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

3. What calms Hagar as she is in the woods?

4. How does Hagar comment on Bram Shipley's dancing?

5. On the train ride out of town, what does John confess happened to the plaid-pin of the Curries?

(see the answer key)

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