Chapter 1 Questions

Stone Angel, Chapter 1

1.) What do we learn about the narrator's mother in the opening of the novel?

2.) Where does the narrator grow up?

3.) How would you describe Hagar as she explains what she's like at ninety (pp.

5-6)

4.) What kind of a relationship did she have with her father?

5.) Explain what we learn about Mr. Currie and Hagar from the foot ruler incident-

6.) Where do the Curries come from?

7.) What do we learn about Mr. Currie from his involvement with the new church?

8.) How do you account for Mr. Currie's remark "Consumption? That's contagious, isn't

it? Well, the Lord works in wondrous ways His will to perform. "

9.) Why won't Matt's father allow him to go hunting with Jules Tonnerre?

10.) How does Dan die and what do we learn about Hagar by her refusal to put on

the old plaid shawl and comfort Dan?

11.) What is Lottie able to do that Hagar is not, in the town dump?

12.) Which characters do you associate with Hagar's past and which do you associate with

her present?