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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. Where do Julian and his mother go on Wednesday nights?

2. What does the grandfather in “A View of the Woods” sell?

3. What is the girl’s real name in “The Comforts of Home”?

4. Who does the bull in “Greenleaf” belong to?

5. What happened to Claud’s leg?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Mr. Tilman?

2. Why does the conman steal the daughter’s artificial leg?

3. Why is Parker initially attracted to his wife?

4. What happens at the end of “The Displaced Person”? How is it an example of irony?

5. Why is the father irritated with his son in “The Lame Shall Enter First”?

6. How does O’Connor get her title for “The Comforts of Home”?

7. Why does Julian accompany his mother on the bus?

8. Why does Tarwater destroy all evidence of his former life and move away?

9. What happens to Mary Fortune?

10. Under what assumption does the daughter in “Good Country People” and mother trust the Bible salesman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In many of O’Connor’s stories, women have aged because of having and rearing children. Which of O’Connor’s stories demonstrated this motif? Which characters lives have been altered, for the negative, because of children? How do women who don’t have children fare in O’Connor’s stories?

Essay Topic 2

O’Connor includes a lot of description of the natural world in her writing. What do the detailed descriptions of skies, sunsets, top lines of trees, and clouds indicate about the author? How many sunsets are depicted with exceptional clarity?

Essay Topic 3

The Grotesque

a. O’Connor was obsessed with grotesque images. Where is this evident in her writing?

b. What’s absurd about O’Connor’s stories?

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