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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Granny compare her soul to?
(a) Snow
(b) Teething baby
(c) Coal
(d) Nursing baby
2. What did Granny’s father say was his daily habit?
(a) Drinking beer
(b) Walking
(c) Having a hot toddy
(d) Calisthenics
3. How do the faces of Granny’s children appear to her toward the end of the story?
(a) Fuzzy and hazy
(b) Sharp and clear
(c) Drifting away
(d) Fading in and out
4. How old is Granny?
(a) 82
(b) Nearly 90
(c) 79
(d) Nearly 80
5. When does Granny say that she last went to Holy Communion?
(a) Sunday
(b) Saturday
(c) Last week
(d) Yesterday
6. Where does Granny have to go to find the person she really wants to see?
(a) Into the kitchen
(b) Outside
(c) Great many rooms
(d) Through a meadow
7. What did Granny’s father have on his last birthday?
(a) Wine
(b) Cobbler
(c) Cake
(d) Hot toddy
8. In her mind, what does Granny tell herself not to get the upper hand of her?
(a) Wounded vanity
(b) Distant grief
(c) Sorrow
(d) Anger
9. After thinking about her father, what most annoys Granny about Cornelia?
(a) That Cornelia thinks she is deaf, blind, and dumb
(b) That Cornelia is slow to respond to her requests
(c) That Cornelia always whispers
(d) That Cornelia has no patience
10. How many acres did Granny fence in once?
(a) 80
(b) 100
(c) 150
(d) 90
11. When Cornelia gets on Granny’s nerves, what does Granny long to do?
(a) Go to another child’s house
(b) Go to sleep and never wake up
(c) Go live with her friend
(d) Go back to her own house
12. What does Granny think were in her bed yesterday?
(a) Fleas
(b) Ticks
(c) Sugar ants
(d) Spiders
13. When Granny fenced in an acreage, who helped her clamp the wires?
(a) Negro boy
(b) Neighbor
(c) Hired hand
(d) Hobo
14. What is being squeezed out of Granny as her pillow presses against her as she tries to nap?
(a) Sleep
(b) Pain
(c) Hunger
(d) Memories
15. What does Granny think there is in the everlasting hand of God?
(a) Leaves
(b) Flowers
(c) Destiny
(d) Fate
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Granny see Dr. Harry that day?
2. What does Granny say she wants when Cornelia comes to her after the doctor leaves?
3. What does Granny tell Dr. Harry she would like when he returns to see her?
4. As Granny remembers being jilted, what does she see in her mind’s eye?
5. What does Granny want picked completely this year and not wasted?
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