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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Jilting of Granny Weatherall.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Granny want to send Sister Borgia?
(a) 6 bottles of wine
(b) Flower seeds
(c) Vegetable seeds
(d) 6 jars of jelly

2. How does Granny describe the way her bones feel at the beginning of the story?
(a) Tight
(b) Loose
(c) Creaky
(d) Brittle

3. What does Granny close her fingers around after Lydia tries to hand her back something?
(a) Rosary
(b) Missal
(c) Lydia’s hand
(d) Jimmy’s thumb

4. Where does Granny say that Cornelia always whispers?
(a) In her room
(b) At the dinner table
(c) Around doors
(d) In hallways

5. What does Cornelia say to her husband after Granny makes a request and says that she is cold because her circulation is stopped from resting in bed?
(a) Mother is getting childish
(b) Mother seems tired
(c) Mother is cranky
(d) Mother seems cross

Short Answer Questions

1. After sixty years, who does Granny decide she would like to see?

2. What does Father Connolly usually do when he comes to visit Granny?

3. What shakes Granny after she considers who she might have exchanged her husband for?

4. What color were John’s eyes?

5. Who does Granny really want to see?

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