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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 tell the person she hasn’t seen for sixty years?
(a) That she forgot him
(b) That she still loves him
(c) That she hates him
(d) That she never missed him

2. Where does Dr. Harry touch Granny when she asks him to leave?
(a) Forehead
(b) Knee
(c) Hand
(d) Shoulder

3. What does Granny wish to do with Cornelia when she thinks about her daughter’s qualities?
(a) Praise
(b) Hug
(c) Scream
(d) Spank

4. As Granny remembers being jilted, what does she see in her mind’s eye?
(a) Smoke
(b) Thunder and lightning
(c) Rain
(d) Hell

5. How does Granny describe the way that Cornelia’s mouth moves, when Granny cannot hear Cornelia?
(a) Moves in strange shapes
(b) In angles and planes
(c) Twists and turns
(d) Open and closes silently

Short Answer Questions

1. When Granny reconsiders what the noise might be that she hears after the doctor leaves, what does she think it might be?

2. How do the faces of Granny’s children appear to her toward the end of the story?

3. Why doesn’t Granny wave good-bye to Dr. Harry?

4. What is being squeezed out of Granny as her pillow presses against her as she tries to nap?

5. What did Granny’s father have on his last birthday?

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