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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Cope suggest once they invade the property?
(a) That they leave.
(b) That they wait for her husband to return.
(c) She suggests nothing, but rather tells them that she’s calling the police.
(d) That they help clean up the mess they’ve made.

2. Why doesn’t the grandmother in “A Good Man is Hard to Find” want to drive through Georgia?
(a) She doesn’t like the heat.
(b) A convict named the “Misfit” has escaped from the local penitentiary.
(c) Her family is buried there.
(d) It is not in the direction that they need to go.

3. What is in Ruby’s sack?
(a) Shrimp and grits.
(b) Four cans of beans.
(c) Her Bible.
(d) Spinach.

4. How many children are traveling with the grandmother and her son in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

5. What does the grandmother have hiding under the newspaper in the backseat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?
(a) A flask.
(b) Her rosary beads.
(c) Her dog.
(d) Her cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Willerton consider herself?

2. What does the upper sleeping berth remind Hazel Wickers of?

3. Who does Mr. Shiflit marry?

4. What happens to General Sash during the ceremony?

5. Where is Mr. Shiflit running to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O’Connor use foreshadowing in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

2. How does Mrs. Willerton feel about her daily life?

3. Why does Hazel Wickers keep thinking about his mother?

4. Why is the man in the gorilla suit irritated with Enoch?

5. Though General Sash does not want to go to his granddaughter’s graduation, why does he agree to anyhow?

6. How does Mr. Shiflet convince the widow of his sincerity?

7. How do the boys invade the farm, despite the widow asking them to leave in “A Circle in the Fire”?

8. What happens at the end of “A Circle in the Fire”?

9. Who is Rabie?

10. What is O’Connor’s message in “The River”?

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