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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 does Mrs. McIntyre decide to fire?

2. What is the girl’s real name in “The Comforts of Home”?

3. Who does the mother realize Walter’s book is about?

4. Who does Mr. Head live with?

5. What happened to Claud’s leg?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where does Calhoun find Singelton?

3. What happens to Mary Fortune?

4. Why is Parker initially attracted to his wife?

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

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

7. Why does the conman steal the daughter’s artificial leg?

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

9. What does Rufus do to the neighbors?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

O’Connor was a young educated woman living in the south. She was deeply religious and suffered from Lupus at a young age. How are the circumstances of her own life reflected in the lives’ of her characters?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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