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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Flannery is told that _________________ is the character with whom most readers identify in A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND.
(a) The nun.
(b) The chef.
(c) The Grandmother.
(d) The traveling salesman.

2. According to Flannery, one of her manuscripts needed so many changes that she almost _____________.
(a) Quit.
(b) Vomited.
(c) Cried.
(d) Screamed.

3. Who wins the National Book Award in this section?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Walker Percy.
(d) Flannery O'Connor.

4. With whom did Flannery live for the last months of her life?
(a) Her fiance.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her husband.

5. What is the title of this section?
(a) The Year That Was.
(b) The Best Years of our Lives.
(c) The Last of the Best.
(d) The Last Year, 1964.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what gift does Flannery thank the Fitzgeralds?

2. Whose work does Flannery respect a great deal?

3. Flannery did not give her life over to marriage and ______________.

4. What health improvement does Flannery have in February of 1964?

5. Sally's comments influence the reader to understand that Flannery will work a lot more __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the title of this Part and why is it significant?

2. What information does Flannery share about the god, Thor, in one of her letters to John Hawkes?

3. How does Flannery say she reacted when seeing the scope of the changes on her manuscript?

4. Which are the main topics Flannery consistently addresses in her letters?

5. How does Flannery describe her writing process?

6. What has become evident about the information Flannery shares with her different friends?

7. How does Flannery describe a teaching assignment to Cecil?

8. Explain Sally Fitzgerald's suggestion of why Flannery is working so diligently at this point in her life?

9. What outstanding quality emerges when looking at the length of time span for the letters?

10. To which person does Flannery write both the first and last letters in this section?

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