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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. Who told The Misfit that he had killed his father?
(a) A prison warden
(b) His mother
(c) The prison psychiatrist
(d) His lawyer

2. What was the name of the man in Grandmother's story
(a) Wesley Jason Farm
(b) James McKinley
(c) Jacob Davis Coffeehouse
(d) Edgar Atkins Teagarden

3. What does Jane Star say when the restaurant owners wife asks her if she would to be her little girl?
(a) Her family abuses her
(b) She would love to
(c) She would never live in such a run down place
(d) Could she eat at the restaurant everyday

4. What does Bailey say about Georgia?
(a) It is too hot
(b) It is a lousy state
(c) It is full of immigrants
(d) It is a beautiful state

5. Why is John Wesley anxious to get through Georgia?
(a) It is too hot
(b) He sees The Misfit
(c) There is nothing to look at
(d) He does not like the south

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children eat for their lunch?

2. What does Grandmother do before they leave?

3. Where is the Misfit heading?

4. What two people return from the woods?

5. How much mileage is on the car clock at the beginning of the journey?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think is the story's real meaning?

2. Why do you think that the Misfit cannot remember the reason he is in prison?

3. In what way does Grandmother manipulate Bailey to visit the plantation?

4. Do you think Grandmother is really that worried about meeting the Misfit in Florida?

5. What does Grandmother mean when she says that Misfit is one of her own children?

6. What importance does Baby have on the story?

7. Why is significant that June refers to Bobby Lee as a pig?

8. Why do you think the Grandmother tries to persuade the Misfit to pray?

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

10. Is it significant Misfit claims he cannot remember his crime?

(see the answer keys)

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