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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. What was Old Dudley waiting for while looking out the window?

2. Emery discovers what about the gorilla?

3. Where does “The Heart of the Park” take place?

4. What does Enoch Emery discover inside the museum?

5. How many customers are in the diner in “Enoch and the Gorilla”?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Rabie?

2. Why does Rayber’s old barber call him a “mother hubbard”?

3. What is Old Gabriel afraid of besides the wildcat?

4. What dismays Ruby about Rufus choosing collard greens as his something “special” that she will make for him?

5. Why does Rayber change barbers?

6. Why does Enoch steal the gorilla suit?

7. How do the boys invade the farm, despite the widow asking them to leave in “A Circle in the Fire”?

8. Why doesn’t the grandmother want to drive through Georgia in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”?

9. Why is it ironic that the young boy’s parents are going to the river to the baptisms in “The River”?

10. How does Mrs. Willerton feel about her daily life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In “The Turkey” Hazel Wickers harbors disbelief that the porter’s father was a railroad man because the porter is black – even if they are in Chicago. What other prejudices cloud Hazel’s beliefs? What unnerves him about the porter? About the train? How does Hazel Wickers view Mrs. Hosen? What do his thoughts and prejudices say about who he is as a character?

Essay Topic 2

Many stories in this collection have an unmarried mother or sister and a son or brother carrying for the man. In how many stories in this collection does the author use a widow and an unmarried son as her main characters? What do they represent?

Essay Topic 3

Many of O’Connor’s characters deep fears happen to them at the end of the stories. How does O’Connor use foreshadowing to warn her readers about what is to happen?

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