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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would John Wesley deal with the misfit?
(a) Talk to him
(b) Call the police
(c) Smack him in the face
(d) Laugh in his face

2. What reason does the Grandmother give for not going to Florida?
(a) There is a hurricaine approaching the area
(b) The children will be bored
(c) They have already been
(d) Florida is too expensive

3. What does the driver tell John to do?
(a) Find some wood
(b) Be quiet
(c) Stay with his mother
(d) Smile

4. What does Mother ask the Misfit?
(a) What crime did you commit
(b) Are you a religous man
(c) Where have they taken Bailey
(d) Do you have a cigarette

5. What was grandmother's sudden realization that caused the accident?
(a) The plantation and house was destroyed when she was a child
(b) She never liked the plantation
(c) The plantation was not in Georgia
(d) She had forgotten her purse

6. Why does the driver want John to stay with his mother?
(a) She is injured
(b) A boy should always stick with his mother
(c) Children make him nervous
(d) His mother's life is in danger

7. What does the Misfit talk about when Mother asks where they have taken Bailey?
(a) His family
(b) The afterlife
(c) His crime
(d) Murder

8. Why does Bailey not pay any attention to his mother?
(a) He is reading the newspaper
(b) His wife has already told him about it
(c) He is watching television
(d) She is senile

9. Who does the Misfit tell his men to take into the woods?
(a) Mother and her baby
(b) Grandmother and Mother
(c) Mother and June Star
(d) Bailey and John Wesley

10. How does Grandmother persuade Bailey to take a detour and see the plantation?
(a) She threatens to vomit
(b) She tells him he was conceived there
(c) She tells him there is a secret panel that holds silver
(d) She tells him she will tell the family his secret

11. How far back do they have to travel to get back to the dirt road?
(a) Five miles
(b) One mile
(c) Eight miles
(d) Ten miles

12. What does the Misfit say when Grandmother asks if he would shoot an old lady?
(a) He is not a killer
(b) He would torture her first
(c) He would shoot anyone
(d) He would not want to shoot one

13. Who is interested in the silver?
(a) Bailey
(b) John Wesley and Jane Star
(c) Bailey's wife
(d) Grandmother

14. What is the driver wearing?
(a) A suit
(b) Shorts and no shirt
(c) Jeans and no shirt
(d) Nothing

15. How many times does the man say it turned over?
(a) Eight times
(b) Four times
(c) Twice
(d) Once

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Grandmother respond to John Wesley's statement that he wants to get out of Georgia?

2. What is the cat doing before Misfit picks it up?

3. Why does the Grandmother want to get the children on her side?

4. What does the Misfit tell the family once they know his identity?

5. Who is Grandmother looking at when she screams Bailey's name?

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