Near the middle of “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” Granny thinks to herself: “There was the day, the day, but a whirl of dark smoke rose and covered it, crept up and over into the bright field where everything was planted wo carefully in orderly rows. That was hell, she knew hell when she saw it. For sixty years, she had prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul in the deep pit of hell, and now the two things were mingled in one and the thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head when she had just got rid of Doctor Harry and was trying to rest a bit.” Explain in 2-4 sentences the meaning of the quote and how it foreshadows the story’s ending

By the time Dexter becomes engaged to Irene Scheerer, what has he learned about Judy Jones?

About which of the following characters do we, the reader, know the least?

An expert witness is a witness who is called to testify about things the person personally observed through their senses.

What was a pants pocket, empty of all money, turned inside out called describing plight of most Americans?

What was the idea that government handouts to Americans was repellant to Hoover, asking individuals to tighten their belts and work harder, and he asked the business community to voluntarily help sustain the economy by retaining workers and continuing production?

What was it called when investors, along with the general public, withdrew their money from banks by the thousands, fearing the banks would go under?

This was when unemployed automotive workers protested their desperate situation by marching nine miles from Detroit to the company’s River Rouge plant in Dearborn, resulting in firemen turning hoses onto the protestors and the police and security guards opening fire?

This was called due to widespread overproduction and overuse of the land, as well as to the harsh weather conditions that followed, resulting in terrifying dust storms known as “black blizzards” that caused “dust pneumonia?”

This law raised tariffs on thousands of imports, was intended to increase sales of American-made goods, but predictably angered foreign trade partners who in turn raised their tariffs on American imports, thus shrinking international trade and closing additional markets to desperate American manufacturers.