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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 does Tarwater dig in “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead”?

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

3. Who does Thomas’s mother help?

4. Where do the two fourteen year-old girls in “A Temple of the Holy Ghost” attend school?

5. What is Asbury convinced of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Mary George irritated with her brother?

4. Under what assumption does the daughter in “Good Country People” and mother trust the Bible salesman?

5. What happens to Mary Fortune?

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

7. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

8. Why does Calhoun visit his great-aunts?

9. Who is supposed to shoot the bull in “Greanleaf”?

10. Why does Julian accompany his mother on the bus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

How does Flannery O'Connor use the physically grotesque to illustrate the beautiful? Discuss the meaning she might have implied with the use of the one-armed man, the club-footed delinquent, the retarded young woman, and the neglected boy who seeks heaven in the river.

Essay Topic 3

There are many small subplots in “The Peeler” that all connect to Hazel Motes as he is walking through town. This story discusses many details of what life was like for many different people on different societal and moral levels. Why does Hazel Motes follow the red-haired girl and the blind man? Why does Hazel think of Leora, his father’s voyeurism and his mother’s puritanical beliefs? What is haunting Hazel Motes?

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