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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. How does Grandmother try to reason with the Misfit?
(a) She tells him Jesus loves him
(b) She says she has a fear of guns
(c) She tells him he is a good man
(d) She tells him he will be put on the electric chair if he kills them

2. What kind of people does Grandmother say the Misfit comes from?
(a) Nice people
(b) Crazy people
(c) Hateful people
(d) Beatniks

3. How does Grandmother respond to John Wesley's statement that he wants to get out of Georgia?
(a) She laughs
(b) She tells Bailey to stop the car before lecturing them all on the virtues of Georgia
(c) She agrees with him
(d) She tells him he should not respond to their native state in that way.

4. Who is Grandmother looking at when she screams Bailey's name?
(a) The Misfit
(b) June Star
(c) Mother
(d) Baby

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does June Star not want to hold hands with Bobby Lee?

2. How does the Grandmother react when she hears two shots?

3. What was the name of the man in Grandmother's story

4. What does Misfit instruct his men to do with Grandmother's body?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Misfit's bad experiences as a child.

2. What do you think the children grown up to be like if they had lived?

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

4. Describe the character of John Wesley.

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

6. Describe Misfit's life?

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

8. How does The Misfit give the Grandmother salvation?

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

10. Why do think Bailey agrees with his son that Georgia is not a good state to live in?

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