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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Marvin and Doris do when they want to go out to the movies?

2. What does the stone angel remind Hagar of?

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

4. Who does John tell Hagar his best friends are when they have moved to Mr. Oatley's home?

5. What was Hagar allowed to take from her father's house after he died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the role reversal that takes place between Hagar and Lottie Drieser?

2. 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?

3. How is Hagar's wild and headstrong nature depicted in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 1, how does Hagar see herself?

9. In Chapter 5, it is mentioned how Hagar takes action to affect her life, one time in the present and one in her past. What were those two instances?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast how Hagar views John and Marvin at birth, as children, and as men. Describe how John and Marvin really are, and how Hagars blindness in symbolic to the stone angel's.

Essay Topic 2

How do you see John Shipley's death being forshadowed in Chapters 6, 7, and 8?

Essay Topic 3

Hagar's possessions are very important to her.

Part 1) Name some of her possessions and why they are important.

Part 2) What do her possessions trigger in the book when she sees them?

Part 3) What are these possessions worth to Hagar?

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