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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. Who does Thomas’s mother help?

2. What does Julian’s mother wear on the bus?

3. Why is Julian embarrassed by his mother?

4. Where do the two fourteen year-old girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” attend school?

5. Who does Mrs. McIntyre decide to fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the father irritated with his son in “The Lame Shall Enter First”?

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

3. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

4. What happens to Mr. Tilman?

5. Why does the college girl in “Revelation” have a seizure?

6. Why does Calhoun visit his great-aunts?

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

8. What happens to Mary Fortune?

9. In what capacity does the grandson in “The Artificial Nigger” lose some of his self-assuredness?

10. Why is Mary George irritated with her brother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Racism

a. How does O’Connor write about racism in the South?

b. Who is O’Connor the most critical of in regards to racism?

Essay Topic 2

Many of O’Connor’s characters are similar. Which characters are the most similar? How do their life’s situations resemble one another?

Essay Topic 3

How does Flannery O'Connor use the physically grotesque to illustrate the beautiful? Discuss the meaning she might have implied with the use of the one-armed man, the club-footed delinquent, the retarded young woman, and the neglected boy who seeks heaven in the river.

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