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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 time do the family leave for Atlanta?
(a) 7:00 am
(b) 9:00 am
(c) 8:45 am
(d) 10:00 am

2. How does Mother respond to Misfit's offer of joining her husband?
(a) She tries to grab his gun
(b) She spits in his face
(c) She cries
(d) She thanks him

3. Why would Grandmother of done well to marry Edgar?
(a) He bought stocks in Coca-Cola
(b) He was a kind man
(c) He loved her
(d) He would of given her a better looking family

4. What does Grandmother tell the Misfit when he starts to talk about his family?
(a) You are blaming everyone, but yourself
(b) Be quiet
(c) You can be honest
(d) You have had a hard time

5. Where is the Misfit heading?
(a) New York
(b) Florida
(c) Ohio
(d) California

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grandmother remember visiting in the area when she was young?

2. Where do the children fall to when the car turns over?

3. What approaches them?

4. What does Bailey's wife do on the way down to Florida?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Do you think the family respects Grandmother?

5. In what way does Grandmother's death affect the Misfit?

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

7. Why does Grandmother tell the Misfit to take one of Bailey's shirts from his suitcase?

8. What is the significance of John Wesley's name?

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

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

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