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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Cornelia keep secrets?
(a) Forever
(b) In a public way
(c) Gossips about secrets
(d) Close to her breast
2. After thinking about her father, what most annoys Granny about Cornelia?
(a) That Cornelia thinks she is deaf, blind, and dumb
(b) That Cornelia always whispers
(c) That Cornelia is slow to respond to her requests
(d) That Cornelia has no patience
3. What does Granny tell Cornelia to do?
(a) Bring supper
(b) Wash her face
(c) Get tea
(d) Wipe her eyes
4. As Granny imagines something, what won’t her companion give her?
(a) Hymnal
(b) Book
(c) Reins
(d) Rosary
5. What sit on embroidered linen in Granny’s room?
(a) Makeup
(b) Hair brushes and tonic bottles
(c) Books
(d) Perfumes
6. What does Granny feel after she tries to tell the doctor what she wants?
(a) Pressure in her chest
(b) Dull ache behind her eyes
(c) Warm weight on her forehead
(d) Sharp pain in her abdomen
7. When does Granny say that she last went to Holy Communion?
(a) Yesterday
(b) Saturday
(c) Sunday
(d) Last week
8. When will the others come to see Granny?
(a) Tomorrow
(b) At dusk
(c) After supper
(d) Soon
9. When Granny tells Cornelia to go away, what does she tell Cornelia not to do?
(a) Cook
(b) Whisper
(c) Clean
(d) Hover
10. What does Granny feel like doing when she imagines hearing something?
(a) Singing
(b) Dancing
(c) Shouting
(d) Crying
11. What would lighting the lamp dispel in the children?
(a) Fighting
(b) Anxiety
(c) Fear
(d) Quarrelling
12. How does Granny describe the way her bones feel at the beginning of the story?
(a) Creaky
(b) Loose
(c) Tight
(d) Brittle
13. What does Granny close her fingers around after Lydia tries to hand her back something?
(a) Rosary
(b) Jimmy’s thumb
(c) Missal
(d) Lydia’s hand
14. When has Cornelia seen her mother as she is now?
(a) 2 years ago
(b) When her last sibling was born
(c) When her father died
(d) Never
15. Who does Granny hear whispering from a long way off after she sees the person she really has wanted to see?
(a) Dr. Harry
(b) Jimmy
(c) Lydia
(d) Cornelia
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the faces of Granny’s children appear to her toward the end of the story?
2. As Granny looks at the valley, where will the sight that she watches move next?
3. How many times has Granny told Cornelia that lying in bed stops circulation?
4. What did Granny always hate?
5. What is the temperature of what Cornelia puts on Granny when she checks on her?
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