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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sits beside Granny when she imagines stepping up into something?
(a) Woman
(b) Man
(c) Child
(d) Priest

2. What does Granny ask Cornelia after feeling something shake?
(a) What is that sound?
(b) Did you hear that?
(c) Is that a vehicle?
(d) Is that lightning?

3. After thinking about her father, what most annoys Granny about Cornelia?
(a) That Cornelia always whispers
(b) That Cornelia is slow to respond to her requests
(c) That Cornelia thinks she is deaf, blind, and dumb
(d) That Cornelia has no patience

4. How does Granny describe what she sees in the valley?
(a) Drops of rain sweeping through the trees and spattering in the creek
(b) Bright warm patches of light and shadow
(c) Marching across the creek and swallowing the trees
(d) Soft evening light highlighting the trees and creek

5. What word does Granny use to describe lighting the lamps?
(a) Compelling
(b) Beautiful
(c) Frightening
(d) Special

6. Why doesn’t the doctor find Granny’s behavior odd?
(a) It is a symptom of her disease
(b) Granny has always been different
(c) She is 90
(d) She is 80

7. What does Cornelia do when her mother tells her to do something?
(a) Calls for the doctor
(b) Steps backward
(c) Kneels and puts her head on the pillow
(d) Sits suddenly

8. How do the faces of Granny’s children appear to her toward the end of the story?
(a) Fuzzy and hazy
(b) Drifting away
(c) Sharp and clear
(d) Fading in and out

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

10. How does Granny feel when she looks back at all she accomplished alone?
(a) Tired, but happy
(b) Take a nap
(c) Satisfied and content
(d) Roll up her sleeves and put the place to rights again

11. As Granny looks at the valley, where will the sight that she watches move next?
(a) Hog pen
(b) Orchard
(c) Barn
(d) Pasture

12. What does Granny do after Cornelia leaves her?
(a) Looks out the window
(b) Reads
(c) Knits
(d) Drowses

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

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

15. What doesn’t Granny think Cornelia can do without asking?
(a) Organize a closet
(b) Change furniture around
(c) Bake a cake
(d) Discipline her children

Short Answer Questions

1. What would Granny tell John sometimes if she could?

2. What is the first thing Granny thinks she hears after the doctor leaves?

3. According to Granny, what does a woman need inside her to have her full health?

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

5. After thinking about Cornelia’s lampshades, how does Granny describe Dr. Harry?

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