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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is interested in the silver?

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

3. What is the name of Bailey's daughter?

4. Who gets out of the car last?

5. What kind of game do the children play?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is it significant that the Misfit puts on Bailey's shirt?

2. What do you think is the story's real meaning?

3. In what way does O'Connor describe the three men approaching their car in ominous terms?

4. How would you describe the characteristics of the Grandmother?

5. Why do you think that the Misfit cannot remember the reason he is in prison?

6. What do you think Misfit's relationship is with women?

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

8. Why is significant that June refers to Bobby Lee as a pig?

9. In what way is it ironic that the Grandmother decided to take the cat on the trip?

10. Why do you think the Grandmother tries to persuade the Misfit to pray?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think O'Connor portrays the family members, including the main character, so negatively? What impact does it have on the story's meaning? How did you feel about their deaths?

Essay Topic 2

The story occasionally expresses Grandmother's character as a racist, though she seems to deny it. What to you think grandmother saw and was taught to think to come to such a point of view? Was it a problem in the South at that time? Can a person change if they deny their true feelings?

Essay Topic 3

Critically examine the negative and positive points of A Good Man is Hard to Find. Is it an accurate portrayal of a fifties family? Does it have dramatic impact? Are the characters well drawn?

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