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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 tell the person she hasn’t seen for sixty years?
(a) That she never missed him
(b) That she still loves him
(c) That she hates him
(d) That she forgot him

2. How do the faces of Granny’s children appear to her toward the end of the story?
(a) Fading in and out
(b) Fuzzy and hazy
(c) Sharp and clear
(d) Drifting away

3. Who is the only person Granny would have exchanged her husband for?
(a) No one
(b) St. Martin
(c) St. Michael
(d) St. Gabriel

4. After describing Dr. Harry, how does Cornelia’s voice sound to Granny?
(a) Staggers and bumps like a cart
(b) Slides up and down on a sour note
(c) Grates and grinds
(d) Fades in and out

5. What is Father Connolly murmuring toward the end of the story?
(a) Last rites
(b) In Latin
(c) Psalm 23
(d) A Mass

6. How does Granny describe the way her bones feel at the beginning of the story?
(a) Tight
(b) Brittle
(c) Creaky
(d) Loose

7. What color rug was on the floor of the room when Granny learned she had been jilted?
(a) Red
(b) Blue
(c) Green
(d) Brown

8. When will the others come to see Granny?
(a) After supper
(b) Soon
(c) At dusk
(d) Tomorrow

9. What is Granny’s last act?
(a) Grasp her rosary
(b) Say good-bye
(c) Rub Jimmy’s hand
(d) Blow out the light

10. What does Granny think is going to happen after she feels something shake her?
(a) Tornado
(b) Storm
(c) A visitor will come
(d) Death

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

12. After Granny tries to tell the doctor what she wants, what whispering does she hear?
(a) Someone outside the window
(b) Doctor and nurse
(c) Her children
(d) Breeze

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

14. What is on top of the bronze clock?
(a) Lion
(b) Books
(c) Statue
(d) Loving cup

15. What happened after Granny made her will?
(a) She broke her ankle
(b) She broke her hip
(c) She came down with a long fever
(d) She caught pneumonia

Short Answer Questions

1. What color were John’s eyes in a picture in Granny’s room?

2. Where does Granny say that Cornelia always whispers?

3. How long has Granny tried to forget being left at the altar?

4. As Granny remembers being jilted, what does she see in her mind’s eye?

5. When Granny considers something that was not given back, where does she feel pain that rises?

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