Friend of My Youth | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Friend of My Youth

1. How does the narrator know Flora Grieves?

2. What job did the narrator's mother have as a young woman?

3. To whom had Flora once been engaged?

4. Why did the man in #3 marry Ellie and not Flora?

5. With what disease is Ellie diagnosed?

6. Who came to care for Ellie?

7. What did the narrator's mother think of the person in #6?

8. Why did the narrator's mother leave the farm?

9. What does Robert do when Ellie dies?

10. Who had been Ellie's nurse?

11. Which modern convenience was installed in Robert's half of the farmhouse?

12. Who does the narrator's mother blame for...
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