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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would Granny say to her children when it was time to come in from playing?
(a) Time for bed
(b) It’s getting dark
(c) Don’t stay out in the night air
(d) Come in for supper

2. What are the birds singing that Granny imagines hearing?
(a) Lullaby
(b) A Mass
(c) Dance tune
(d) Doxology

3. How does Granny say that life can be wasted?
(a) Waste opportunities
(b) Don’t spend time with your children
(c) Don’t build relationships
(d) Waste good food

4. How many birds does Granny imagine she hears?
(a) 500
(b) 1,000
(c) 20
(d) 45

5. What does Granny feel like doing when she imagines hearing something?
(a) Singing
(b) Shouting
(c) Crying
(d) Dancing

6. 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 has no patience
(d) That Cornelia is slow to respond to her requests

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

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

9. What type of lampshades does Cornelia have in Granny’s room?
(a) White silk
(b) Blue silk
(c) Lavender silk
(d) Green silk

10. What does Granny think were in her bed yesterday?
(a) Sugar ants
(b) Fleas
(c) Spiders
(d) Ticks

11. When Cornelia gets on Granny’s nerves, what does Granny long to do?
(a) Go live with her friend
(b) Go to another child’s house
(c) Go to sleep and never wake up
(d) Go back to her own house

12. What does Granny think of the world she found after being jilted?
(a) Hard
(b) Better
(c) Burdensome
(d) Wonderful

13. What was a frequent topic of Father Connolly’s stories?
(a) A Southern Baptist
(b) A lapsed Catholic
(c) An Irishman
(d) A Scotchman

14. How old is Granny?
(a) 79
(b) Nearly 90
(c) 82
(d) Nearly 80

15. When Granny’s eyes close after the doctor’s visit, what does she compare shutting her eyes to?
(a) Drawing a dark curtain around her bed
(b) Coming of the night
(c) Going blind
(d) Shutting out the sun

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Granny think when Father Connolly touches her?

2. What color is the embroidered linen in Granny’s room?

3. What types of glasses are on the pantry shelves?

4. What does Granny call paying for a doctor’s visit?

5. How does Granny describe what it was like raising the children on her own?

(see the answer keys)

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