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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. In “The River”, why do the characters head down to the river?
(a) To bathe.
(b) To fish.
(c) To hear the preacher and watch baptisms.
(d) To launder clothes.

2. What is the profession of Mrs. Willerton’s main character Lot Motum?
(a) A barber.
(b) A locomotive engineer.
(c) An Irish potato farmer.
(d) A sharecropper.

3. Where is Mr. Shiflit running to?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Mobile.
(c) Portland.
(d) Corinth.

4. Old Gabriel is _________?
(a) Blind.
(b) Mute.
(c) Crippled.
(d) Deaf.

5. Where does “The Heart of the Park” take place?
(a) The zoo.
(b) A public park.
(c) On a farm.
(d) In front of a theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy in “The River” say his name is (though it isn’t)?

2. How old is Ruller?

3. What does the baker accuse the red-haired girl and the blind man of doing in “The Peeler”?

4. How many children does the babysitter have in “The River”?

5. “The Barber” takes place in which town?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why doesn’t Hazel Wickers believe that the porter’s father was a railroad engineer?

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

6. Who is Rabie?

7. What does Enoch Emery’s daily routine consist of?

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

9. How is the General dying at the commencement a form of irony?

10. What dismays Ruby about Rufus choosing collard greens as his something “special” that she will make for him?

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