Q 01/05

In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, why does the grandmother dress up for the long drive?

A) To die looking like a lady

B) To impress a suitor

C) To outshine her daughter-in-law

D) To attend a funeral

Answer · why

A) To die looking like a lady

To die looking like a lady is the point: in a hat, white cuffs and a spray of cloth violets, anyone finding her on the highway would know her class at...

Q 02/05

In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, what makes the grandmother's son crash on a dirt road?

A) A tire blows out

B) The cat leaps on him

C) A deer bolts across

D) His son grabs the wheel

Answer · why

B) The cat leaps on him

The cat leaps on him after the grandmother, jolted by a sudden embarrassing thought, upsets the luggage hiding the animal she smuggled along.

Q 03/05

In A Good Man Is Hard to Find, the Misfit's big black car is compared to which kind of vehicle?

A) A hearse

B) An ambulance

C) A paddy wagon

D) A dump truck

Answer · why

A) A hearse

A hearse is the story's plainest omen: the battered car crests the hill minutes after the crash and stops above the family with three armed men inside...

Q 04/05

Just before the Misfit shoots her in A Good Man Is Hard to Find, what does the grandmother call him?

A) A fallen angel

B) The devil himself

C) Her own child

D) A poor lost lamb

Answer · why

C) Her own child

Her own child is how she suddenly sees the killer, and she reaches out to touch him. He springs back and fires three times into her chest.

Q 05/05

Where is the family in A Good Man Is Hard to Find driving on vacation when they meet the Misfit?

A) Alabama

B) Louisiana

C) Mississippi

D) Florida

Answer · why

D) Florida

Florida is also where an escaped killer is said to be heading, which the grandmother uses as her best argument for going somewhere else.