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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 Mrs. McIntyre decide to fire?

2. What does the grandfather in “A View of the Woods” sell?

3. Who does the mother realize Walter’s book is about?

4. Who steps out of the black car in “The Displaced Person”?

5. What is Calhoun interested in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

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

7. What happens to Mr. Tilman?

8. Why does Asbury ask his mother to call for the priest?

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

10. Why does Calhoun visit his great-aunts?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

O’Connor’s work is often described as morbid, namely because she often has children die in her stories. How many stories have similarly neglected small children that die at the end? What does this represent?

Essay Topic 2

O’Connor’s stories are rich with symbolic irony. How does O’Connor demonstrate this in “The River”?

Essay Topic 3

O’ Connor’s writing is full of absurd images and grotesque scenes. What is absurd about Enoch Emery’s behavior? What is comical about his discoveries, his routine and his expectations? What is O’Connor suggesting by the absurdity of this story?

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