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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 causes Grandmother's head to clear?
(a) It always happens when she is nervous
(b) She realizes she is a good person
(c) The Misfit looks like he is going to cry
(d) She hears Bailey's voice

2. Who does the Grandmother say has escaped from prison?
(a) The Nutcase
(b) The Misfit
(c) The Fox
(d) Bread Basket

3. Why is Bailey so impatient?
(a) Because the children are fighting
(b) Because the driving conditions are so bad
(c) Because grandmother will not stop talking
(d) Because the baby is crying

4. Who does the Misfit tell his men to take into the woods?
(a) Mother and June Star
(b) Bailey and John Wesley
(c) Mother and her baby
(d) Grandmother and Mother

5. What does John Wesley do as he walks to the woods?
(a) Tries to grab one of the mens guns
(b) Holds his father's hand
(c) Cries
(d) Screams

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Grandmother want to get the children on her side?

2. What does the Misfit do when Grandmother begins to cry?

3. How many times does Bailey say they can stop after visiting the plantation?

4. How far back do they have to travel to get back to the dirt road?

5. What approaches them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What importance does Baby have on the story?

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

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

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

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

6. Do you think the family respects Grandmother?

7. Why do you think the Misfit does not kill Grandmother until the end?

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

9. Describe the character of John Wesley.

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

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