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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 the Grandmother tell the Misfit for the second time as Bailey and John are being lead away?
(a) He is an evil man
(b) Go to hell
(c) He is a good man
(d) Does he not believe in God

2. Who is the first person in the car the next morning?
(a) Jane Star
(b) John Wesley
(c) Bailey
(d) Grandmother

3. What do they hear from the woods?
(a) One shot
(b) Police sirens
(c) Birds flying from the trees
(d) Two shots

4. What are the names of the two men traveling with the Misfit?
(a) Hiram and Jude
(b) Frankie and Jackie
(c) Bobby Lee and Harold
(d) Hiram and Bobby Lee

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jane Star do in the restaurant?

2. Why does Bailey not pay any attention to his mother?

3. What year does Misfit say his father died?

4. What does the Misfit say when Grandmother asks if he would shoot an old lady?

5. Why does his mother say he cannot sneak anything into the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Misfit's appearance?

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

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

4. How does The Misfit give the Grandmother salvation?

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

6. In what way does O'Connor present the Grandmother as no better than the Misfit?

7. Why were the fifties such an important transitional period?

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

9. Why do you think children make the Misfit nervous?

10. Why do you think Grandmother smuggles the cat into the car?

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