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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Granny have to go to find the person she really wants to see?
(a) Outside
(b) Through a meadow
(c) Great many rooms
(d) Into the kitchen

2. If John came back, who would he look for?
(a) A young woman with small children
(b) A young woman with dark hair
(c) A young woman with a Spanish comb in her hair and a painted fan
(d) A young woman with fair complexion and unwrinkled skin

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

4. What does Granny feel after she tries to tell the doctor what she wants?
(a) Warm weight on her forehead
(b) Dull ache behind her eyes
(c) Pressure in her chest
(d) Sharp pain in her abdomen

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Cornelia saying as her mother is dying?

4. How old is Granny?

5. What is on top of the bronze clock?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Granny feel about her soul?

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

3. Who does Granny really wish to see, and where does she find her?

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

5. When Granny thinks about Cornelia’s character qualities, what does she want to do to Cornelia?

6. What does Granny think about losing things?

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

8. What type of stories does Father Connolly tell?

9. How did Granny think of John, and why has her view of him changed?

10. What does Granny see and hear Father Connolly doing at the end of the story?

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