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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 want picked completely this year and not wasted?

2. When will the others come to see Granny?

3. Who does Granny hear whispering from a long way off after she sees the person she really has wanted to see?

4. When Dr. Harry comes back, how does he describe Granny?

5. What color were John’s eyes?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why doesn’t Granny want Dr. Harry attending to her?

3. After sixty years, what does Granny decide she wants?

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

5. As Granny is in bed drowsing, what does she think of death?

6. What type of stories does Father Connolly tell?

7. What things is Granny not too old for?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Granny mentally lists things that she wishes to do tomorrow. How does Granny feel about getting things done or completed? What things does she think are important to do tomorrow? Why are those things that are important to finish?

Essay Topic 3

As a widow, Granny had to be independent. Was Granny always an independent woman or did she develop that quality? What things did Granny have to do on her own? How did she have to assert independence? How did her independent experience affect her life?

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