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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ruller pretending to be?

2. What is the profession of Mrs. Willerton’s main character Lot Motum?

3. Who returns from hunting in the short story “Wildcat”?

4. Where does “The Heart of the Park” take place?

5. What disappoints Old Dudley at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Ruller afraid something bad is about to happen?

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

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

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

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

8. Who is Rabie?

9. Why does Enoch steal the gorilla suit?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In many of O’Connor’s stories, women have aged because of having and rearing children. Which of O’Connor’s stories demonstrated this motif? Which characters lives have been altered, for the negative, because of children? How do women who don’t have children fare in O’Connor’s stories?

Essay Topic 2

Mrs. Willerton in “The Crop” uses her fiction to escape into another reality. Analyze Mrs. Willerton’s fictional account to gain a sense of what she really wants in life? For example, what is suggested by Mrs. Willerton initially creating a mean unforgiving wife for Lot Motum? How does Mrs. Willerton come to his rescue? What is suggested by the crop loss and Lot Motum’s response?

Essay Topic 3

Religion

a. How does religion play a role in short stories in The Complete Stories?

b. What religious motifs arise again and again in O’Connor’s work?

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