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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 Grandmother blame the state of the country on?

2. Who told The Misfit that he had killed his father?

3. Why is John Wesley anxious to get through Georgia?

4. What is the name of Grandmother's cat?

5. How many times does the man say it turned over?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the character of John Wesley.

2. In what way does Grandmother's death affect the Misfit?

3. Do you think the family respects Grandmother?

4. Describe what Grandmother is wearing in the car?

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

6. What does Grandmother mean when she says that Misfit is one of her own children?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Imagine you were faced with a serial killer. How would you react? Where do you think Bailey and his family went wrong?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The short story is set in the 1950s. What concerns and political problems were there in the fifties? Does O'Connor reflect them in the book?

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