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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the tall dresser in Granny’s room have on it?
(a) Picture of the children
(b) Granny’s picture
(c) John’s picture
(d) Picture of Granny and John on their wedding day

3. What shakes Granny after she considers who she might have exchanged her husband for?
(a) Deep roaring
(b) Explosion
(c) Children
(d) Thunder

4. What does Granny ask for after she thinks about her father?
(a) Tea
(b) Lemon juice
(c) Coffee
(d) Hot toddy

5. Where does Granny have to go to find the person she really wants to see?
(a) Into the kitchen
(b) Through a meadow
(c) Outside
(d) Great many rooms

6. What does Granny say to the doctor as she considers what she wanted to give her children?
(a) Go away
(b) Shut up
(c) Hush and be quiet
(d) Don’t bother me

7. How long has Granny tried to forget being left at the altar?
(a) 60 years
(b) 50 years
(c) 70 years
(d) 65 years

8. What did Granny mean to finish before she died?
(a) Dress
(b) Curtains
(c) Tablecloth
(d) Altar cloth

9. What does Granny call paying for a doctor’s visit?
(a) Idiocy
(b) Inconvenience
(c) Waste
(d) Nonsense

10. What color is the tall dresser in the room where Granny is?
(a) White
(b) Black
(c) Brown
(d) Cream

11. Why is it important that Granny give Lydia something special?
(a) She has young children to raise
(b) She is sick
(c) She has a worthless husband
(d) She is a widow

12. What does Granny want to give Lydia?
(a) Bank account
(b) 40 acres
(c) House
(d) Car

13. Why does Granny want to send something to Sister Borgia?
(a) For her dyspepsia
(b) For her gout
(c) For the Abbey’s garden
(d) For her garden

14. After Granny considers her life, what flashes on her closed eyelids?
(a) Lamp
(b) Flashlight
(c) Candle
(d) Light

15. After the doctor leaves her room, who does Granny believe is whispering in her ear?
(a) John
(b) Lydia and Hapsy
(c) George
(d) Cornelia and Dr. Harry

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Granny tell Cornelia to do?

2. What is on the table by Granny’s bed?

3. What does Granny plan to go through tomorrow?

4. What does Granny see in the valley?

5. What does Granny flick from Dr. Harry’s grasp at the beginning of the story?

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