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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. At the beginning of the story, to where does Granny pull up her sheet?

2. How does Granny describe the way the doctor moves around the bed?

3. What happened after Granny made her will?

4. What does the tall dresser in Granny’s room have on it?

5. How many years did Granny live with kerosene lamps?

Short Essay Questions

1. As Granny thinks further of her jilting, what does she consider?

2. What would Granny do if the children woke in the night with nightmares?

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

4. What does Granny want to do sometimes when she is frustrated with Cornelia?

5. What did Granny do that shows in the children now?

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

7. What does Granny feel and hear after considering whether to close the shades?

8. What type of stories does Father Connolly tell?

9. When Granny thinks of all she did as a young widow, what does she want to do?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In different ways, both George and John left Granny. Which of the men left Granny because he chose to leave her? Was it easier for Granny to accept the leaving of one or the other men? How did Granny cope when George left? How did she cope when John left?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Granny death is the last event in the story. When does it become obvious that Granny is not sick, but dying? Does Granny fear death? Is death what she expected? What emotions does she seem to feel as she dies?

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