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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the grandmother tell them about as they turn around?
(a) Her first love
(b) A well
(c) The beautiful house
(d) The silver

2. Where is the plantation Grandmother can remember?
(a) Tennessee
(b) Kentucky
(c) New York
(d) North Carolina

3. Where does the Grandmother hide her cat?
(a) Up her jumper
(b) In her pocket
(c) Under the front seat
(d) In a basket

4. Who does Grandmother offer to take care of?
(a) Bailey's wife
(b) Jane Star
(c) The cat
(d) The baby

5. What does the Grandmother scream as Bailey is being led away?
(a) The lord's name
(b) Murderer
(c) Bailey's name
(d) Is there any justice

6. How many people are in the car?
(a) One
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) Four

7. What do the children eat for their lunch?
(a) Packed lunches
(b) McDonalds
(c) A pizza
(d) KFC

8. What did Edgar used to carve on his water melon?
(a) Grandmother's name
(b) His initials
(c) The sun
(d) A smiley face

9. Why is the dirt road such a rough ride?
(a) Grandma is over excited
(b) Dust impairs Bailey's view
(c) It is full of pot holes
(d) It has many sharp curves, hills and embankments

10. Why does Grandmother hope she is injured?
(a) So she won't have to go to Florida
(b) So she can get more attention
(c) So Bailey won't be angry at her
(d) So they can spend more time at the plantation

11. Why does Grandmother dress so smartly?
(a) To feel good about herself
(b) She is always on the look out for a new man
(c) So if they have an accident and she dies they will see she was a lady
(d) To hint that she wants to stop at a nice restaurant on the way

12. What reason does Grandmother say a black boy ate the melon?
(a) He was obsessed with water melons
(b) He was hungry
(c) He was jealous of Edgar
(d) He saw the initials E.A.T.

13. What does Misfit say his father died of?
(a) A broken heart
(b) The flu
(c) The scurvy
(d) TB

14. Who says the following line "there never was a body that give the undertaker a tip?"
(a) Grandmother
(b) The Misfit
(c) Bobby Lee
(d) Hiram

15. Who gave The Misfit his name?
(a) The Police
(b) He did
(c) His father
(d) His mother

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Misfit reply when Grandmother asks if he prays?

2. What does Mother ask the Misfit?

3. What year was the story first published?

4. How does Mother respond to Misfit's offer of joining her husband?

5. What does Jane Star say when the restaurant owners wife asks her if she would to be her little girl?

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