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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 Misfit do when he sees the cat?
(a) He kicks it
(b) He hisses at it
(c) He picks it up
(d) He shoots it

2. Why does he call himself the Misfit?
(a) He likes wearing ill fitting clothes
(b) He likes the word
(c) He does not fit in anywhere
(d) Because what he has did wrong does not fit the punishment

3. Where are the mother and baby thrown when the car turns over?
(a) Onto the floor
(b) Through the front window
(c) Out of the door
(d) Through the sun roof

4. Between what two people does Grandmother sit during the trip?
(a) John Wesley and Bailey
(b) Jane Star and Bailey
(c) John Wesley and Jane Star
(d) Bailey and his wife

5. What does the Misfit do when Grandmother touches him on the shoulder?
(a) Hugs her
(b) Cries
(c) Shoots her
(d) Kicks her in the shin

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Grandmother's head to clear?

2. Where is the plantation Grandmother can remember?

3. What are all three of the men carrying?

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

5. What was grandmother's sudden realization that caused the accident?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does the Grandmother foreshadow their deaths?

2. Is it significant that Misfit is not wearing a shirt?

3. How does the Misfit interpretation of the bible contrast to the Grandmother's?

4. Describe Bailey's relationship with his mother?

5. In what does the Grandmothers death force the Misfit to reexamine his life of crime?

6. Describe Misfit's life?

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

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

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

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

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