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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. What does Grandma touch?

2. What does Grandmother do once she is back in the car?

3. What does Grandmother tell the Misfit when he starts to talk about his family?

4. What do they eat at the restaurant?

5. Who does not like taking the cat on trips?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O'Connor express the generation gap between Grandmother and the rest of the family?

2. What is the significance of June Star tap dancing in the restaurant?

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

4. Why do you think that O'Connor does not describe the appearance of the Misfits two friends?

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

6. What does the Misfit's description of the penitentiary's walls say about him?

7. In what ways do the children show a lack of respect for their elders?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Choose a character from the story and write his or hers background, motivation and character conflict. How would the story change if they were not there?

Essay Topic 3

O'Connor portrays the dynamics of a family in the fifties. What was the dynamics of a family in the fifties? How did it reflect life in the fifties? How is it different to families today?

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