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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 does Joy take off?

2. Who does Mrs. McIntyre decide to fire?

3. What are Norton and Rufus both interested in?

4. Where is Asbury going?

5. Who dies in the beginning of “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Mr. Tilman?

2. What does Julian find embarrassing about his mother?

3. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

4. Why doesn’t the grandson in “The Artificial Nigger” ever want to travel to the city again?

5. Why is Mary George irritated with her brother?

6. Why does Calhoun visit his great-aunts?

7. How are the two teenage girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” hypocritical?

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

9. Why does Thomas hide the gun in the guest room?

10. What does Mrs. Turpin do in the waiting room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Grotesque

a. O’Connor was obsessed with grotesque images. Where is this evident in her writing?

b. What’s absurd about O’Connor’s stories?

Essay Topic 2

Children appear in many of O’Connor’s stories. What are the roles of children in O’Connor’s work? What happens to children in her stories?

Essay Topic 3

In “The Turkey” Hazel Wickers harbors disbelief that the porter’s father was a railroad man because the porter is black – even if they are in Chicago. What other prejudices cloud Hazel’s beliefs? What unnerves him about the porter? About the train? How does Hazel Wickers view Mrs. Hosen? What do his thoughts and prejudices say about who he is as a character?

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