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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What types of glasses are on the pantry shelves?
(a) Crystal
(b) Canning
(c) Mason
(d) Jelly
2. When someone offered to kill Granny’s missing groom, how did he swear?
(a) Like a gutter snipe
(b) Like a sailor’s parrot
(c) Like a prize fighter
(d) Like a sailor
3. What does Dr. Harry call Granny after she tells him to respect his elders?
(a) Missy
(b) Madam
(c) Lady
(d) Mistress
4. What does Granny ask Cornelia after feeling something shake?
(a) Is that a vehicle?
(b) Is that lightning?
(c) What is that sound?
(d) Did you hear that?
5. According to Granny, what does a woman need inside her to have her full health?
(a) Love
(b) Good food
(c) Milk
(d) Child
6. What sit on embroidered linen in Granny’s room?
(a) Hair brushes and tonic bottles
(b) Makeup
(c) Perfumes
(d) Books
7. What does Granny say to the doctor as she considers what she wanted to give her children?
(a) Don’t bother me
(b) Hush and be quiet
(c) Go away
(d) Shut up
8. Like what does Granny’s pillow seem to float?
(a) Cloud
(b) Hammock
(c) Feathers
(d) Leaves
9. What was a frequent topic of Father Connolly’s stories?
(a) A Scotchman
(b) An Irishman
(c) A Southern Baptist
(d) A lapsed Catholic
10. What did Granny’s father say was his daily habit?
(a) Calisthenics
(b) Drinking beer
(c) Having a hot toddy
(d) Walking
11. What does Granny close her fingers around after Lydia tries to hand her back something?
(a) Jimmy’s thumb
(b) Missal
(c) Rosary
(d) Lydia’s hand
12. At the beginning of the story, what does Granny ask the doctor to take with him and go?
(a) Schoolbooks
(b) Stethoscope
(c) Prodding fingers
(d) Cold hands
13. How does Granny describe what it was like raising the children on her own?
(a) Work and laughter
(b) Nothing but struggle
(c) Hardship and toil
(d) Hard pull
14. What did Granny’s father have on his last birthday?
(a) Cobbler
(b) Cake
(c) Wine
(d) Hot toddy
15. How does Cornelia look to Granny when Cornelia checks on Granny?
(a) Her features are swollen and full of little puddles
(b) Her eyes are wet and her nose is red
(c) Sad and pensive
(d) Bright-eyed and happy
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Granny grasp what she grasps toward the end?
2. What does Granny see in the valley?
3. When is Granny trying to take a little nap?
4. What does Cornelia put on Granny when she comes to check on her?
5. How does Granny feel when she looks back at all she accomplished alone?
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