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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jane Star do in the restaurant?
(a) She plays guitar
(b) She tap dances
(c) She vomits
(d) She sings

2. Between what two people does Grandmother sit during the trip?
(a) Jane Star and Bailey
(b) John Wesley and Bailey
(c) John Wesley and Jane Star
(d) Bailey and his wife

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

4. What does the Misfit say is the only thing he gets pleasure from?
(a) Murder
(b) Talking to old people
(c) Sex
(d) Meaness

5. What does Grandmother say when The Misfit apologizes for not wearing a shirt?
(a) You have a fine figure
(b) Why don't you apologize for your crimes
(c) Bailey has a spare one in his suitcase
(d) You would look better in a woolly jumper

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the family members are dead?

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

3. How many people are in the car?

4. Who does Grandmother offer to take care of?

5. What does Grandmother kick?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do you think the Grandmother interprets the bible?

2. How would you describe the characteristics of the Grandmother?

3. Why were the fifties such an important transitional period?

4. Why do you think Grandmother smuggles the cat into the car?

5. How does The Misfit give the Grandmother salvation?

6. Do you think O'Connor's portrayal of her character's is sympathetic?

7. What do you think Misfit's relationship is with women?

8. Why do you think both Grandmother and Mother remain unnamed throughout the book?

9. How does O'Connor represent the older generation in the book?

10. Why does not O'Connor tell the reader what Bailey says to his mother?

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