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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Granny feel Father Connolly do toward the end of the story?
(a) Tickle her feet
(b) Sprinkle water on her forehead
(c) Take her hand
(d) Smooth her covers

2. What does Granny ask when Cornelia seems to be talking, but Granny can’t hear her?
(a) Why is everyone coming?
(b) What did you say?
(c) Whose birthday is it?
(d) Why aren’t you getting supper?

3. How many acres did Granny fence in once?
(a) 90
(b) 150
(c) 100
(d) 80

4. Who is the only person Granny would have exchanged her husband for?
(a) St. Martin
(b) St. Gabriel
(c) No one
(d) St. Michael

5. What color is the tall dresser in the room where Granny is?
(a) Cream
(b) Black
(c) Brown
(d) White

6. How does Granny describe what it was like raising the children on her own?
(a) Work and laughter
(b) Hard pull
(c) Hardship and toil
(d) Nothing but struggle

7. What does Granny say to the doctor as she considers what she wanted to give her children?
(a) Shut up
(b) Hush and be quiet
(c) Go away
(d) Don’t bother me

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

9. What happened after Granny made her will?
(a) She caught pneumonia
(b) She came down with a long fever
(c) She broke her ankle
(d) She broke her hip

10. Why is it important that Granny give Lydia something special?
(a) She is a widow
(b) She has a worthless husband
(c) She is sick
(d) She has young children to raise

11. What does Granny want picked completely this year and not wasted?
(a) Wheat
(b) Fruit
(c) Vegetables
(d) Corn

12. After Cornelia leaves, how long does Granny hope her children will leave her alone?
(a) A couple hours
(b) 30 minutes
(c) 15 minutes
(d) A minute

13. What does Father Connolly usually do when he comes to visit Granny?
(a) Pray and say a rosary
(b) Have a meal
(c) Read the Bible
(d) Have tea, play cards, and gossip

14. What does sleeping in the light give?
(a) Disjointed memories
(b) Nightmares
(c) Tiredness
(d) Fatigue

15. What do Granny and the person she really wants to see lean forward to do?
(a) Hug
(b) Shake hands
(c) Exchange rings
(d) Kiss

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Granny describe the way her bones feel at the beginning of the story?

2. What does Granny want to send Sister Borgia?

3. When has Cornelia seen her mother as she is now?

4. At the beginning of the story, what does Granny ask the doctor to take with him and go?

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

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