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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 is the name of Motes' hometown?

2. What is the only item of furniture left in Motes' home when he arrives there?

3. How did Asa Hawks become blind?

4. What does Motes light on fire as he travels through his abandoned house?

5. What is the one question Hazel Motes asks Mrs. Wally Bee Hitchcock?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does fellow street preacher Hoover Shoats do that affects the following in Moats' congregation?

2. What act does Enoch Emory commit that is directly related to his "wise blood"?

3. Where does Motes first meet Sabbath Hawks?

4. Who is Mrs. Wally Bee Hitchcock?

5. Where does Motes sleep on his first night home from the army?

6. Who is Asa Hawks?

7. What obsessive acts does Enoch Emory engage in to feel closer to mankind?

8. What is Motes' first impression of Enoch Emory?

9. What is the aftermath of Layfield's death on Moat's life?

10. How does Emory get his revenge on Gongo the Gorilla?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the story "Revelation", Mrs. Turpin's favorite past time is organizing groups of people into a hierarchy. First, describe the hierarchy that Mrs. Turpin creates when she is sitting in the doctor's office with Claud. Who is at the top of this ladder? Who is at the bottom? Then, compare / contrast this hierarchy to the hierarchy Mrs. Turpin sees in her final revelation. Who is at the top of this ladder? Who is at the bottom? Finally, describe Mrs. Turpin's emotional reaction to her revelation of Heaven. How do you think this revelation will change the way Mrs. Turpin views the world and the people in it? Be sure to include examples from the text to help strengthen your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

In the 1960's, the South was completely torn apart into the old and the new with the new desegregation and anti-discrimination laws that transformed the land. How do you see these laws depicted in the story "Everything that Rises Must Converge"? How do Julian and his mother represent the old and new South in the story? What do Julian and his mother fight about most regularly? How do these clashes between Julian and his mother mimic the greater conflicts in Southern society? Be sure to include examples from the text to help strengthen your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Both Asa Hawks and Hazel Motes go through the process of blinding themselves in the story "Wise Blood." First, describe the situation in which Asa Hawks blinded himself. Then, compare / contrast Hawks' motivations in blinding himself with Motes' motivation in blinding himself. What did each of these men hope to gain from their actions? Were they successful? Why or why not? What methods did each of these men use to blind themselves? What does this action tell the reader about their characters? Be sure to include examples from the text to strengthen your arguments.

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