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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At age 90, Hagar recalls only two things she has done truly free. What are they?
(a) Knitting socks for orphans and baking bread for the needy.
(b) Retrieving the bedpan for her roommate and telling Marvin he was a better son than John.
(c) Having two sons, Marvin and John.
(d) Selling eggs and her mother's limoge china.

2. Hagar returns to Manawaka when Bram becomes very sick. Upon seeing Hagar for the first time in years, Bram doesn't recognize Hagar at first. Later, who does he tell her she reminds him of?
(a) Doris.
(b) His daughters, Jess and Gladys.
(c) His first fat wife, Clara.
(d) Marvin.

3. What comment does Mrs. Steiner make causing Hagar to wonder how she knows so much about her?
(a) "Do you get used to life?"
(b) "I know who you are and what you've done."
(c) "Well if it isn't Hagar Shipley, I haven't seen you in ages."
(d) "I am a psychic"

4. What is the stone angel supposed to do?
(a) Keep everyone safe.
(b) Guide the townspeople to heaven.
(c) Sing a hymn.
(d) Pray to heaven.

5. What has been John's therapy for his dying father?
(a) Letting him drink the liquor he distilled.
(b) Stretching and good nutrition.
(c) Biting on a bullet.
(d) Hydrocodone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stone angel?

2. Why did Bram receive a warning from a Mountie?

3. What was Murray's son's name, and how did he die?

4. What did Bram do after the harvest was over?

5. On the way to the hospital to deliver Marvin, Doris is scared, but doesn't admit it. What is she scared of?

(see the answer key)

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