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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Cornelia says to humor Granny because she’s eighty, how does Granny feel?
(a) Like she is being mollycoddled
(b) Like she lives in a thin glass cage
(c) Angry
(d) Frustrated

2. Why doesn’t Granny wave good-bye to Dr. Harry?
(a) Too mad
(b) Too frustrated
(c) Too tired
(d) Too much trouble

3. Who tries to help Lydia put something back in Granny’s hands?
(a) Jimmy
(b) Dr. Harry
(c) Father Connelly
(d) Cornelia

4. How does Granny describe the way the doctor moves around the bed?
(a) Stumbles like a clown
(b) Floats like a balloon
(c) Glides like a swan
(d) Patters like a mouse

5. What is being squeezed out of Granny as her pillow presses against her as she tries to nap?
(a) Sleep
(b) Pain
(c) Hunger
(d) Memories

6. What does Dr. Harry call Granny after she tells him to respect his elders?
(a) Lady
(b) Madam
(c) Mistress
(d) Missy

7. What pet name does Jimmy call his mother?
(a) Mommy
(b) Mom
(c) Mother
(d) Mammy

8. If John came back, who would he look for?
(a) A young woman with a Spanish comb in her hair and a painted fan
(b) A young woman with small children
(c) A young woman with dark hair
(d) A young woman with fair complexion and unwrinkled skin

9. How does Granny describe what it was like raising the children on her own?
(a) Hardship and toil
(b) Nothing but struggle
(c) Work and laughter
(d) Hard pull

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

11. What does Granny flick from Dr. Harry’s grasp at the beginning of the story?
(a) Wrist
(b) Elbow
(c) Hair
(d) Hand

12. What does Granny think there is in the everlasting hand of God?
(a) Destiny
(b) Flowers
(c) Fate
(d) Leaves

13. When Dr. Harry returns, how long does Granny believe that he has been gone?
(a) 5 minutes
(b) 2 hours
(c) An hour
(d) About 45 minutes

14. At the beginning of the story, what does Granny ask the doctor to take with him and go?
(a) Schoolbooks
(b) Prodding fingers
(c) Cold hands
(d) Stethoscope

15. What does Granny say when she realizes she is dying?
(a) It’s not time
(b) I can’t go yet
(c) I’m not ready
(d) I have things to do

Short Answer Questions

1. After Granny tries to tell the doctor what she wants, what whispering does she hear?

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

3. What type of army does Granny think of when she looks at the valley?

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

5. How far does Lydia drive to talk with her mother?

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