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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 dose Hazel accompany to the dining car?

2. What is in Ruby’s sack?

3. What does Enoch Emery discover inside the museum?

4. What does Enoch Emery borrow from his landlord?

5. Where is Old Dudley living?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Mr. Shiflet convince the widow of his sincerity?

3. Why is Enoch convinced that he must show Hazel Weaver the mummified man?

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

5. Why is Hazel Motes reluctant to befriend Enoch Emery?

6. Why doesn’t Hazel Wickers believe that the porter’s father was a railroad engineer?

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

8. Though General Sash does not want to go to his granddaughter’s graduation, why does he agree to anyhow?

9. What does Old Dudley think about New York?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Mrs. Willerton in “The Crop” uses her fiction to escape into another reality. Analyze Mrs. Willerton’s fictional account to gain a sense of what she really wants in life? For example, what is suggested by Mrs. Willerton initially creating a mean unforgiving wife for Lot Motum? How does Mrs. Willerton come to his rescue? What is suggested by the crop loss and Lot Motum’s response?

Essay Topic 3

Many of O’Connor’s characters are similar. Which characters are the most similar? How do their life’s situations resemble one another?

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