A Good Man is Hard to Find

1. Where do the grandmother and her family live?

A) east Tennessee

B) Florida

C) Atlanta

D) Mobile

2. If anyone finds the grandmother dead on the highway, what would she want them to know about her from her clothes?

A) She doesn’t care about her appearance.

B) She is a lady.

C) She is from east Tennessee.

D) She owns a cat.

3. How many grandchildren does the grandmother have?

A) 1

B) 2

C) 3

D) 4

4. Who is Pitty Sing?

A) the grandmother’s cat

B) John Wesley’s favorite singer

C) Bailey’s sister

D) the baby

5. What is The Tower? (short answer)

6. Who says the title line, “A good man is hard to find”?

A) the grandmother

B) Red Sammy

C) June Star

D) The Misfit

7. Why do the children want to take a detour to the big house in Toombsboro?

A) Their cousins live there.

B) The house belonged to slaveholders.

C) They used to live there.

D) There is rumored to be expensive silver hidden behind a secret panel in the house.

8. What causes Bailey to crash the car?

A) He falls asleep at the wheel.

B) He is drunk.

C) The Misfit runs them off the road.

D) The cat jumps onto Bailey’s shoulder after the grandmother jostles her suitcase.

9. What is the “horrible thought” the grandmother has just before the car accident?

A) The house with the rumored secret panel is in Tennessee, not Georgia.

B) She imagines The Misfit killing them all.

C) She thinks of the cat asphyxiating itself if left alone.

D) She thinks of how easy it would be for Bailey to crash the car, killing them all.

10. Which character is the first to recognize The Misfit? (short answer)

11. What reason does the grandmother give for why she believes The Misfit is “a good man”?

A) The Misfit looks like he’s had a hard life.

B) The Misfit wears glasses.

C) The Misfit looks like he comes from a good, well-bred family.

D) She never says he’s a “good man.”

12. Which two characters does The Misfit order his accomplices to take into the woods first? (short answer)

13. Why is The Misfit a “different breed” than his siblings, according to his father?

A) because he was a violent child

B) because he was an inquisitive child

C) because he was adopted

D) because he was a slow learner in school

14. What kind of music does The Misfit say he used to perform?

A) rock & roll

B) gospel

C) jazz

D) classical

15. According to the doctor at the prison, for what crime was The Misfit incarcerated?

A) murdering his father

B) murdering a gas station attendant

C) robbing a bank

D) running an illegal gambling operation

16. What does The Misfit believe happened to his father?

A) He killed himself.

B) He ran off with another woman and never returned.

C) He was killed in a robbery.

D) He died of the flu during a pandemic.

17. Why did The Misfit give himself his nickname?

A) because he doesn’t fit into society and its expectations of him

B) because he has misshapen facial features

C) because he believes his punishment does not fit his crimes

D) because he met someone with that nickname and liked the sound of it

18. What does The Misfit say he wishes Jesus never did?

A) die on the cross

B) cast out the merchants and money changers in the temple

C) deliver the Sermon on the Mount

D) raise the dead

19. What startles The Misfit, causing him to shoot the grandmother?

A) The grandmother touches him on the shoulder.

B) A snake bites him.

C) The grandmother tries to take his gun away.

D) He sees a hallucination of his father.

20. Fill in the blank: “She would of been _____________, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every day of her life.”