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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 is Calhoun interested in?
(a) Enoch the gorilla.
(b) The Partridge Festival.
(c) Comic books.
(d) Fire.

2. Where do Joy and the Bible salesman go?
(a) To Georgia.
(b) To the bedroom.
(c) To the hayloft in the barn.
(d) They don’t go anywhere.

3. What do Mr. Head and his grandson forget on the train?
(a) Their umbrellas.
(b) Their hats.
(c) Their tickets.
(d) Their sack lunches.

4. Who does the mother realize Walter’s book is about?
(a) The Disciples.
(b) satan.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Judas.

5. What does the grandfather in “A View of the Woods” sell?
(a) Firearms.
(b) Livestock from his farm.
(c) Bootlegged alcohol.
(d) Small plots of land from his farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Norton live with?

2. What is wrong with Julian’s mother?

3. Where is Asbury going?

4. What was Parker initially intrigued by his wife?

5. Where are Mr. and Mrs. Turpin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the conman steal the daughter’s artificial leg?

2. How does O’Connor get her title for “The Comforts of Home”?

3. Why is Parker initially attracted to his wife?

4. Why does Tarwater destroy all evidence of his former life and move away?

5. Why does Mrs. May want the bull removed from her pasture?

6. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

7. What happens at the end of “The Displaced Person”? How is it an example of irony?

8. Which character has the keenest sense of observation in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”?

9. Who is supposed to shoot the bull in “Greanleaf”?

10. What happens to Mr. Tilman?

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