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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. Hagar asks Lottie about the incident with the chicks that happened when they were children. What is Lottie's response?
2. When it is clear that Bram is dying, Marvin comes to visit him. Hagar overhears Marvin tell Bram something that she wishes she could also say to Bram. What is it?
3. How does Hagar feel about her world in the beginning of Chapter 10?
4. When Hagar returns to present time, she is startled by two things she is doing, what are they?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do you think putting on pink lipstick does to the stone angel?
2. How would you describe Mr. Murray Lees in Chapter 8?
3. John's death effected Hagar deeply. However, she was not able to show the emotion until she drinks wine with Mr. Lee. Why do you think that was?
4. Describe the irony, at the end of Chapter 6, of Bram being buried in the Currie plot, and having the Shipley name carved on the other side of the Currie stone.
5. Hagar finds something in common with Elva, a recognition. How was this foreshadowed at her first visit to the nursing home?
6. What do Mr. Murray Lees and Hagar have in common?
7. In Chapter 7, Hagar sees that Arlene is making the same mistakes she did. How is this true?
8. Having never said a kind word about Bram, why do you think Hagar tells Elva her husband had been very handsome?
9. In the beginning of Chapter 6, Hagar is concerned about intruders coming into the house where she is at the cannery. She thinks that Bram would have taken care of anyone, if he had been there. What do you think this says about how she felt about Bram as a protector?
10. In Chapter 7, Hagar's fear of the dark is admitted. Why do you think she has never told anyone she was afraid of the dark?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the novel we see Hagar throw herself into work, for example after marriage and at Mr. Oately's. Why do you think she does this?
Essay Topic 2
Marvin Shipley was caught between "two fires" meaning his mother who needed, but did not want to go to the nursing home and his wife Doris (Hagar's caregiver) who wanted Hagar to go to the nursing home and could no longer keep up with the workload because of her health. What would you have done if you were Marvin? Would you have changed your mind at any point in the novel?
Essay Topic 3
How is the name Hagar significant? How does Hagar feel about her name? Who are the two people in the novel who call Hagar by her name and why is it worth noting?
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