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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 would Edgar bring Grandmother every morning?

2. What does The Misfit do when he sees the cat?

3. What does the Misfit apologize to the women about?

4. What does Jane Star say when the restaurant owners wife asks her if she would to be her little girl?

5. How many time does Grandmother say the car turned over?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do you think both Grandmother and Mother remain unnamed throughout the book?

4. How does The Misfit give the Grandmother salvation?

5. In what way does Grandmother manipulate Bailey to visit the plantation?

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

7. Do you think the family respects Grandmother?

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

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

10. Describe the character of June Star

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the use of dialect. Do you think the dialect is an accurate portrayal of how southerners speak? What meaning does the dialect give to the story and characters? What do you think the story would either gain or lose by having no dialect?

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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