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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While seated on the veranda at Silverthreads Nursing Home, whose birth does Hagar remember?
(a) Her son Marvin's birth.
(b) Her granddaughter Tina's birth.
(c) Daniel's birth.
(d) Her son John's birth.

2. At her visit to Silverthreads, Hagar is seated on the veranda for a cup of tea. What does she think the tea tastes like?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Wild flowers in spring.
(c) Jasmine.
(d) Hemlock.

3. What age is John when Hagar gives him the plaid-pin of the Curries?
(a) Six.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Forty.
(d) Eight.

4. What is the name of the children's verse that implies if Hagar had the wings of an angel or a crow, she could fly up high and spit on the people below?
(a) Fly Like an Angel
(b) Fly Like a Crow.
(c) The Prisoner's Song.
(d) If I had Wings.

5. How did Hagar feel about John at his birth?
(a) Full of pride and joy.
(b) Strange and uncertain.
(c) Distant.
(d) She felt an instant connection.

Short Answer Questions

1. After getting married, what was Hagar waiting for at the Shipley place?

2. What two virtues does Hagar cite to John?

3. What kept impinging on the cemetery plots?

4. What is the stone angel supposed to do?

5. What does Hagar's picture of Bram look like.

(see the answer key)

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