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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 does Grandmother have tied in her hair?
(a) A chopstick
(b) A ribbon
(c) Nothing
(d) A green hankerchief

2. How does O'Connor describe the Misfit's car?
(a) A blood red murder mobile
(b) A grey bubble shaped automobile
(c) A white and clean cut automobile
(d) A black hearse-like automobile

3. What does the cat jump onto?
(a) Baby's face
(b) John's head
(c) Bailey's shoulder
(d) The head rest

4. What two people return from the woods?
(a) Hiram and John Wesley
(b) Bailey and John Wesley
(c) Bobby Lee and Hiram
(d) Hiram and Bailey

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor say Grandmother's face looks like when she is lying in the ditch?

2. What does the Misfit do with the shirt?

3. Where did The Misfit say he and his friends got there clothes?

4. What reason does the Grandmother give for not going to Florida?

5. What kind of game do the children play?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is it significant Grandmother looks at Misfit when she screams her son's name?

2. What is the significance of Grandmother wanting to paint the black child she sees sitting on the porch?

3. Why is Grandmother so delighted that the Misfit suddenly shows an interest in Jesus?

4. How does O'Connor represent the older generation in the book?

5. How do you think the Grandmother interprets the bible?

6. Why do Grandmother and Red Sammy get along so well?

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

8. In what way does O'Connor describe the three men approaching their car in ominous terms?

9. Describe the character of John Wesley.

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

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