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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 Hazel Weaver want from Enoch Emery?
(a) The address of the red-haired girl and the blind man.
(b) An ice cream soda.
(c) To stop spying on the sunbathing women.
(d) Friendship.

2. What are the red-haired girl and the blind man doing in “The Peeler”?
(a) Handing out religious pamphlets.
(b) Holding hands an observing passersby.
(c) Selling bread loaves.
(d) Heckling people.

3. What is wrong with Lucynell’s daughter?
(a) She is deaf.
(b) She is mentally retarded and cannot speak.
(c) She is blind.
(d) She cannot walk.

4. Who is Madam Zoleeda?
(a) Rufus’s prostitute.
(b) Ruby's best friend.
(c) The palmist on highway 87.
(d) The woman who owns the local saloon.

5. Where does Emery go for something to eat in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?
(a) To the grocer.
(b) To his apartment.
(c) The Paris Diner.
(d) The churro cart.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is John Wesley?

2. Who helps Old Dudley up the stairs?

3. Who tries to befriend Hazel Motes?

4. What time does the babysitter pick up the boy in “The River”?

5. What does the grandmother have hiding under the newspaper in the backseat in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Enoch steal the gorilla suit?

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

5. Why is Enoch convinced that he must show Hazel Weaver the mummified man?

6. Why does Rayber change barbers?

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

8. Who is Leora?

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

10. Why doesn’t the grandmother want to drive through Georgia in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

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