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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. When someone offered to kill Granny’s missing groom, how did he swear?
(a) Like a sailor’s parrot
(b) Like a prize fighter
(c) Like a gutter snipe
(d) Like a sailor

2. What is the first thing Granny thinks she hears after the doctor leaves?
(a) Dog eating
(b) Kitten scratching
(c) Branches rustling
(d) Leaves rustling

3. What did Granny always hate?
(a) Sickness
(b) Death beds
(c) Funerals
(d) Surprises

4. What does Granny ask when Cornelia seems to be talking, but Granny can’t hear her?
(a) Why aren’t you getting supper?
(b) Why is everyone coming?
(c) Whose birthday is it?
(d) What did you say?

5. According to Granny, what does a woman need inside her to have her full health?
(a) Milk
(b) Good food
(c) Love
(d) Child

Short Answer Questions

1. When has Cornelia seen her mother as she is now?

2. What does Cornelia do when her mother tells her to do something?

3. What would Granny say to her children when it was time to come in from playing?

4. How does Granny describe what she sees in the valley?

5. What does Granny say that Cornelia is always being?

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