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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 Madam Zoleeda tell Ruby?
(a) That she is sick.
(b) That Ruby owes her money.
(c) That Rufus is “good for nothin”.
(d) That she doesn’t like collard greens.

2. What does the boy in “The River” say his name is (though it isn’t)?
(a) Robbie.
(b) Raybar.
(c) Enoch.
(d) Bevel.

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

4. After the family rolls their car in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, what do the men in the passing car have?
(a) A tow truck.
(b) Guns.
(c) Food.
(d) Water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to befriend Hazel Motes?

2. What does Enoch Emery discover inside the museum?

3. What does Emery order at the diner in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?

4. Where are the characters going when “A Good Man is Hard to Find” opens?

5. What do the boys do in the woods behind the farm in “A Circle in the Fire”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why doesn’t the hitchhiker ride with Mr. Shiflet when he pulls over for him?

5. Why is Ruller so proud to bring the turkey home to his family?

6. Why is it ironic that the young boy’s parents are going to the river to the baptisms in “The River”?

7. Why does Enoch steal the gorilla suit?

8. What does Mrs. Willerton wish that she had more time for?

9. Why does Rayber’s old barber call him a “mother hubbard”?

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

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