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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the reason Granny gives the doctor for taking to her bed?
(a) To get out of cleaning
(b) To get rid of Lydia
(c) To get out of baking
(d) To get rid of Cornelia

4. How are Dr. Harry’s fingers described at the beginning of the story?
(a) Slender
(b) Stick-like
(c) Pudgy
(d) Fat

5. What is the temperature of what Cornelia puts on Granny when she checks on her?
(a) Hot
(b) Cold
(c) Lukewarm
(d) Tepid

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the person that Granny really wants to see say to her?

3. After thinking about Cornelia’s lampshades, what does Granny see around Dr. Harry?

4. What is on top of the bronze clock?

5. How does Granny describe the way her bones feel at the beginning of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Granny think about childbirth and how it affected her?

2. As Granny thinks further of her jilting, what does she consider?

3. How does Granny describe a fog that rolls in?

4. What does Father Connolly usually do when he visits?

5. How does Granny describe how the lamps were lit in the evenings?

6. What does Granny sense and do as she dies?

7. What did Granny’s father think made him live so long?

8. What does Granny think Cornelia and her husband say after she asks Cornelia to get her something and why does it frustrate her?

9. What did one of men do when Granny learned her groom was not coming?

10. What does Granny tell someone who offers to get revenge on George?

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