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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 sit on embroidered linen in Granny’s room?

2. Like what does Granny’s pillow seem to float?

3. What response does Granny get when she tells the doctor what she wants?

4. When Granny fenced in an acreage, who helped her clamp the wires?

5. What did Granny want to give Cornelia?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Granny thinks of all she did as a young widow, what does she want to do?

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

4. Why does Granny consider getting up to close the shades?

5. What did Granny do when she thought she was dying at age sixty?

6. How does Cornelia’s voice seem to Granny after Granny looks at her husband’s picture?

7. What does Granny request from Cornelia after drowsing for a while and why?

8. What would Granny say to the man who left her at the altar if she could see him again?

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

10. What does Granny want to do sometimes when she is frustrated with Cornelia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Granny begins to lose control over herself and those around her. Does Granny consciously or unconsciously realize that she is losing control? What does she do with Cornelia to try to reassert some control? Does she try to gain control by the way she treats the doctor? How else does Granny try to regain some power and control?

Essay Topic 2

The author uses stream of consciousness to tell the story. How does this technique help readers to feel what Granny is feeling? Does this technique make it difficult to follow the story? How does this technique effectively show Granny’s thoughts and feelings as she dies?

Essay Topic 3

In different ways, both George and John left Granny. Which of the men left Granny because he chose to leave her? Was it easier for Granny to accept the leaving of one or the other men? How did Granny cope when George left? How did she cope when John left?

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