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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Granny want to give Lydia?
(a) Bank account
(b) 40 acres
(c) House
(d) Car
2. How do the faces of Granny’s children appear to her toward the end of the story?
(a) Fading in and out
(b) Sharp and clear
(c) Fuzzy and hazy
(d) Drifting away
3. What does Granny want to send Sister Borgia?
(a) Vegetable seeds
(b) Flower seeds
(c) 6 jars of jelly
(d) 6 bottles of wine
4. When will the others come to see Granny?
(a) Tomorrow
(b) After supper
(c) At dusk
(d) Soon
5. What does the tall dresser in Granny’s room have on it?
(a) Granny’s picture
(b) John’s picture
(c) Picture of the children
(d) Picture of Granny and John on their wedding day
6. What color were John’s eyes?
(a) Green
(b) Gray
(c) Brown
(d) Blue
7. What does Granny consider doing or she won’t be able to sleep?
(a) Get a drink
(b) Use the bathroom
(c) Close the curtains
(d) Pull the shades down
8. Why is it important that Granny give Lydia something special?
(a) She is sick
(b) She is a widow
(c) She has young children to raise
(d) She has a worthless husband
9. What does Granny tell Dr. Harry she would like when he returns to see her?
(a) To be left alone
(b) To have lunch
(c) To have dinner
(d) To lie in peace and get rested
10. When someone offered to kill Granny’s missing groom, how did he swear?
(a) Like a sailor’s parrot
(b) Like a prize fighter
(c) Like a sailor
(d) Like a gutter snipe
11. What does Granny call paying for a doctor’s visit?
(a) Idiocy
(b) Nonsense
(c) Waste
(d) Inconvenience
12. What does Granny think were in her bed yesterday?
(a) Fleas
(b) Sugar ants
(c) Ticks
(d) Spiders
13. What does Granny compare her soul to?
(a) Snow
(b) Coal
(c) Teething baby
(d) Nursing baby
14. What is Father Connolly murmuring toward the end of the story?
(a) Last rites
(b) Psalm 23
(c) A Mass
(d) In Latin
15. How many of the sick that Granny tended died?
(a) Just a few
(b) Hardly any of them
(c) None
(d) Only two
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Granny think when Father Connolly touches her?
2. What is on the table by Granny’s bed?
3. What did Granny’s father have on his last birthday?
4. What does Granny want to tell the person she hasn’t seen for sixty years?
5. When Granny fenced in an acreage, who helped her clamp the wires?
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