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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 is Calhoun trying to vindicate?

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

3. Besides her name and illness, what else does the girl fake in “The Comforts of Home”?

4. What happens to the girl in the waiting room in “Revelation”?

5. Why is Julian embarrassed by his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rufus do to the neighbors?

2. In what capacity does the grandson in “The Artificial Nigger” lose some of his self-assuredness?

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

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

5. Why does Asbury ask his mother to call for the priest?

6. What does Julian find embarrassing about his mother?

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

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

9. Why does Tarwater destroy all evidence of his former life and move away?

10. What happens to Mary Fortune?

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

Children appear in many of O’Connor’s stories. What are the roles of children in O’Connor’s work? What happens to children in her stories?

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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