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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. How does Grandmother respond to John Wesley's statement that he wants to get out of Georgia?

2. Who does Grandma recognize the driver as?

3. Why would Grandmother of done well to marry Edgar?

4. What does Misfit say his father died of?

5. What has Grandmother smuggled on the trip with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Grandmother and Red Sammy get along so well?

2. What does it say about Grandmother that she cannot keep Misfit's name to herself?

3. Describe Misfit's life?

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

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

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

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

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

9. In what way does the Grandmother change moments before she dies?

10. Describe what Grandmother is wearing in the car?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Grandmother and the Misfit relate so well to each other? Do they share similar characteristics? Why does the Misfit kill her at the end?

Essay Topic 2

At the end of the book, Grandmother redeems herself and dies with a smile on her face. In what ways does O'Connor represent Grandmother as a character who needs to redeem herself? Why is it important she redeems herself?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the Misfit's time in jail. How do you think it affected him? Does O'Connor portray his time in jail as a help to him? What does it say about the state of prisons in the fifties?

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