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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. What does Hagar's picture of Bram look like.
(a) The top of the picutre has faded away, as has her memory of Bram.
(b) He is wearing a sailor suit.
(c) He is dirty and unshaven.
(d) She doesn't have a picutre of Bram.

2. What did Hagar's father donate to the new church when she was a young girl?
(a) Silver candlesticks.
(b) Stained glass windows.
(c) A stone angel.
(d) A chair.

3. What did the young people do in the Manawaka winters?
(a) Go to Florida.
(b) Make snowcones.
(c) Build snowmen.
(d) Skate on the frozen river.

4. Who did Jason Currie remarry after Hagar's mother died?
(a) He didn't remarry.
(b) Arlene Dreiser.
(c) Aunt Doll.
(d) Lottie Dreiser.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the stone angel?

2. Who were Hagar's brothers?

3. Who was Hagar's father?

4. What is the Currie family war cry?

5. What does Hagar do as she sits on the bed in the little building at Shadow Point?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Hagar is dressed when, in Chapter 5, she sets out for Shadow Point. What do you think this says about her?

2. Hagar's father's comments, as well as Lottie Dreiser's about Bramptom Shipley, only seem to fuel Hagar's idea to be with him. Why do you think that is?

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

4. At the end of Chapter 4, why do you think Marvin decides Hagar will go to the nursing home in one week?

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

6. How is the symbolic use of wings portrayed in Chapter 3?

7. How does Hagar see John's character flaws? How does this compare her to the stone angel?

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

9. Describe the imagery between Hagar and the weeds and wild flowers at the cemetery.

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

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