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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 is stolen from Joy?
(a) Her clothes.
(b) Her artificial leg.
(c) Her virginity.
(d) Her wig.

2. Who tries to get Francis to live with him after he is orphaned?
(a) His schoolteacher.
(b) The neighbors.
(c) His grandmother.
(d) His uncle.

3. What does Parker have on his back by the end of “Parker’s Back”?
(a) Hair.
(b) A tattoo of Jesus Christ.
(c) A tattoo of wife and son.
(d) A rash.

4. Who does Thomas’s mother help?
(a) Thomas.
(b) A girl who was thrown in jail for bouncing a check.
(c) Her neighbors who are ill with influenza.
(d) The church people.

5. What does the grandfather in “A View of the Woods” sell?
(a) Bootlegged alcohol.
(b) Firearms.
(c) Small plots of land from his farm.
(d) Livestock from his farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two teenage girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” call themselves?

2. What happened to Claud’s leg?

3. What does Mrs. Greenleaf do with the articles she cuts out from the newspaper?

4. Where are Mr. and Mrs. Turpin?

5. What animals does Mrs. Turpin water at the end of “Revelation”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the cause of Mrs. McIntyre’s poor decision-making?

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

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

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

5. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

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

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

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

9. Why does the grandfather in “A View of the Woods” sell parcels of his land?

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

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