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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Granny hear whispering from a long way off after she sees the person she really has wanted to see?
(a) Jimmy
(b) Cornelia
(c) Dr. Harry
(d) Lydia

2. Why does Granny grasp what she grasps toward the end?
(a) She wants to feel close to God
(b) It is comforting
(c) Wants something alive
(d) She just needs something to keep her fingers still.

3. What would lighting the lamp dispel in the children?
(a) Quarrelling
(b) Anxiety
(c) Fighting
(d) Fear

4. Why does Jimmy come to talk to his mother?
(a) Discuss raising children
(b) Just to spend time with her
(c) Get advice
(d) Discuss business

5. What does Granny tell Cornelia to do?
(a) Wipe her eyes
(b) Get tea
(c) Wash her face
(d) Bring supper

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Granny want picked completely this year and not wasted?

2. What does Granny want to give Lydia?

3. What doesn’t Granny think Cornelia can do without asking?

4. What color was the flame when the lamp was lit?

5. How does Cornelia keep secrets?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn’t Granny like her husband’s picture that sits on a dresser?

2. After feeling something wet, what does Granny consider about Cornelia and say to her?

3. How does Granny describe how the lamps were lit in the evenings?

4. What happened to Granny’s world when she was jilted?

5. What does Granny observe about Cornelia in the morning?

6. What did Granny do when she thought she was dying at age sixty?

7. What does Granny think Cornelia and her husband say after she asks Cornelia to get her something and why does it frustrate her?

8. How does Granny describe a fog that rolls in?

9. What did one of men do when Granny learned her groom was not coming?

10. What type of stories does Father Connolly tell?

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