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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the baby doing before they kill him?
(a) Crying
(b) Sucking its thumb
(c) Playing with its mother's hair
(d) Sleeping

2. Where is the Misfit's father buried?
(a) Hill top methodist church yard
(b) Mount hopewell Baptist churchyard
(c) In the Misfit's back garden
(d) Under the Misfit's floorboards

3. What kind of game do the children play?
(a) A guessing game
(b) A card game
(c) A computer game
(d) A board game

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

5. How does Grandmother say they can get to the plantation?
(a) Taking a chair lift
(b) Driving through the fields
(c) By turning around and driving down a dirt track
(d) Walking across the field

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Grandmother tell the Misfit for the second time as Bailey and John are being lead away?

2. What year does Misfit say his father died?

3. How many times does the Misfit shoot Grandmother in the chest?

4. What is the name of the owner of the Tower restaurant?

5. What does the Misfit say about his parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what does the Grandmothers death force the Misfit to reexamine his life of crime?

2. Does O'Connor give Misfit some redeeming qualities?

3. Why do you think both Grandmother and Mother remain unnamed throughout the book?

4. Describe Bailey's relationship with his mother?

5. What does the Misfit's description of the penitentiary's walls say about him?

6. What does it say about Grandmother that she cannot keep Misfit's name to herself?

7. How does O'Connor express the generation gap between Grandmother and the rest of the family?

8. What does the story about the melon say about Grandmother's character?

9. Describe the character of June Star

10. Why does not O'Connor tell the reader what Bailey says to his mother?

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