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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Grandmother dress so smartly?
(a) To hint that she wants to stop at a nice restaurant on the way
(b) So if they have an accident and she dies they will see she was a lady
(c) She is always on the look out for a new man
(d) To feel good about herself

2. Who is the first person in the car the next morning?
(a) John Wesley
(b) Grandmother
(c) Bailey
(d) Jane Star

3. What does Grandma touch?
(a) The Misfit's forehead
(b) The Misfit's gun
(c) The Misfit's head
(d) The Misfit's shoulder

4. Who gets out of the car last?
(a) The man on the back seat
(b) O'Connor does not say
(c) The driver
(d) The man on the front seat

5. What does Grandmother kick?
(a) John
(b) The back of Bailey's chair
(c) The valise
(d) The baby

6. Where are the mother and baby thrown when the car turns over?
(a) Onto the floor
(b) Through the sun roof
(c) Through the front window
(d) Out of the door

7. Why does Grandmother kick the valise?
(a) John hits her in the stomach
(b) She gets over excited
(c) She has a sudden realization
(d) Bailey says something cruel

8. What does Grandmother say when the Misfit says only Jesus can raise the dead?
(a) He was a liar
(b) Maybe he did not raise the daed
(c) Too true
(d) He raised only good people from the dead

9. What does the Misfit say about his parents?
(a) They were hypocrites
(b) They were never there.
(c) They were fine people
(d) They were evil

10. Why does Bailey not pay any attention to his mother?
(a) His wife has already told him about it
(b) He is watching television
(c) He is reading the newspaper
(d) She is senile

11. What does the Misfit talk about when Mother asks where they have taken Bailey?
(a) Murder
(b) His family
(c) His crime
(d) The afterlife

12. What is the name of the restaurant the family stop at?
(a) The Cliff Top
(b) Tip Top
(c) The Mountain
(d) The Tower

13. What do the children eat for their lunch?
(a) KFC
(b) Packed lunches
(c) McDonalds
(d) A pizza

14. What is the reason Grandmother says Misfit won't shoot her?
(a) She is a lady
(b) He needs her
(c) He will go to jail
(d) She is old

15. Why does he call himself the Misfit?
(a) Because what he has did wrong does not fit the punishment
(b) He does not fit in anywhere
(c) He likes the word
(d) He likes wearing ill fitting clothes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Misfit instruct his men to do with Grandmother's body?

2. What year was the story first published?

3. What two people return from the woods?

4. What does Grandmother remind Bailey about on the journey?

5. Why are the children disappointed?

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