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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Granny think there is in the everlasting hand of God?

2. What does Granny think were in her bed yesterday?

3. What does Granny call paying for a doctor’s visit?

4. How does Granny describe the way the doctor moves around the bed?

5. What would lighting the lamp dispel in the children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would Granny do if the children woke in the night with nightmares?

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

3. After Dr. Harry leaves in the morning, what does Granny think of while she lays and drowses?

4. What does Granny feel and hear after considering whether to close the shades?

5. What does Granny think about waste?

6. What reason does Granny give Dr. Harry for taking to her bed?

7. What happened to Granny’s world when she was jilted?

8. What does Cornelia’s voice make Granny think of?

9. After feeling something wet, what does Granny consider about Cornelia and say to her?

10. What does Granny tell herself as she thinks about being jilted?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

All of Granny’s children are at her side when she dies. Do her children still respect Granny? How do Lydia and Jimmy show that they still respect their mother? How does Cornelia show respect? What is Granny’s relationship with her grown children?

Essay Topic 2

Granny death is the last event in the story. When does it become obvious that Granny is not sick, but dying? Does Granny fear death? Is death what she expected? What emotions does she seem to feel as she dies?

Essay Topic 3

Granny’s mind slips from the present to the past. Does Granny remember both good and bad memories? What emotions are stirred as Granny remembers the past? Do her memories prepare her to die?

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