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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much older is Bram Shipley than Hagar?
(a) 14 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) He is really younger than her.
(d) 7 years.

2. When was it mentioned that Bram would usually work?
(a) When he needed drinking money.
(b) During harvest and threshing.
(c) All day every day.
(d) Never, he was lazy.

3. What kept impinging on the cemetery plots?
(a) Wild and native flowers.
(b) Bees and grasshoppers.
(c) Cats.
(d) Bermuda grass.

4. What does Hagar think about her son Marvin and his wife Doris?
(a) Doris is greedy and Marvin is not ambitious.
(b) Doris is smart and Marvin is smarter.
(c) Doris is stingy and Marvin is lazy.
(d) Doris is stupid and Marvin is stupid.

5. How does Hagar get to the hospital to deliver her second son, John?
(a) She drives herself.
(b) Marvin drives her to the hospital.
(c) She delivers him at home.
(d) Bram drives her down the Main Street of town.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Hagar's sons does she say is like her father, Jason Currie?

2. How much money did Hagar get from her father?

3. After the bus drops Hagar off in Shadow Point and she purchases provisions at the service station, how does Hagar get to the fish cannery road?

4. What does Bram tell Hagar when she says she is leaving and taking John?

5. What comment does Mrs. Steiner make causing Hagar to wonder how she knows so much about her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Hagar is obviously unwilling to give in to death. How is that seen in Chapter 3?

2. Describe some differences Hagar sees in Marvin and John.

3. Why is Hagar's name significant?

4. Why is Hagar frustrated by her brother Matt's death?

5. Why is Hagar frightened when Marvin and Doris tell her they want to sell the house?

6. What purpose does Doris serve and how is she contrasted against Hagar?

7. Toward the end of Chapter 4, needs cash in order to leave Brampton Shipley. How does Hagar get the cash and in doing so give up her pride?

8. At the nursing home, Hagar thinks she sees someone she knows. Why is this significant?

9. Comment on the irony that the stone angel was "doubly blind."

10. Hagar is very attached to her things in the house. Describe a few of them.

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