A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Watermelon/E.A.T.
A Mr. Edgar Atkins Teagarden courted the grandmother before she married. What did he bring her and what did he carve on it?
Took off his glasses and began to clean them
After shooting grandmother, what did the "Misfit" do
Atlanta
From what city were they leaving?
they made him nervous
How did the children affect the "Misfit"?
John Wesley (son, age 8) and June Star (daughter with yellow hair)
Name the two children other than the baby?
Signing
Since the "Misfit" can't make all that he did wrong fit all the punishment he has received he has started _________ a written copy of what he has done wrong?
Shoot
The "Misfit" said grandmother would have been a good woman if there had been someone to ________ her every minute of her life?
Gray monkey
The "Tower" owner was lying on the ground working on a truck with a ________ chained to a chinaberry tree nearby.
That the children had been to Florida before and should go to Tennessee to broaden their life
What argument did the grandmother use to convince the mother?
The one about "The Misfit" escaping from the Federal Pen and heading to Florida
What article in the newspaper did she use to try and convince him?
Grandmother upset her valise causing the newspaper over the basket to let Pitty Sing out. She jumped on Bailey's shoulder
What caused the accident?
The children yelling
What convinced Bailey to turn off?
Bailey's yellow shirt with blue parrots on it
What did Bobby Lee bring back from the woods?
It was a hillbilly dumping ground
What did John Wesley say about the state of Tennessee?
Tap dance routine
What did June Star do to music in the restaurant?
Gray-striped with white face and orange nose
What did Pitty Sing look like?
Jumped up and yelled that he was the "Misfit"
What did grandmother do once she recognized the man?
Pray
What did grandmother keep telling the "Misfit" he should do?
All her money
What did grandmother offer him not to shoot her?
Sprang back and shot her three times
What did the "Misfit" do when grandmother reached out and touched him after saying that he was one of her own children?
Meanness
What did the "Misfit" find pleasure in?
Comic books
What did the children read in the car?
A black battered hearse like car with three men in it
What did the grandmother flag down?
Tell them a story
What did the grandmother say she would do to keep the children from fighting over the cloud game?
Big black valise and a basket with Pitty Sing, the cat.
What did the grandmother take in the car with her?
Caught fleas on himself and bit them
What did the monkey do as the children watched?
"The Tennessee Waltz"
What did the mother play with her dime on the nickelodeon?
Green head kerchief
What did the mother seem to always wear on her head?
That the house she had remembered was not in Georgia but Tennessee
What had the grandmother remembered before letting the cat out
Cut on face and broken shoulder
What injury did the mother have?
Bailey
What is the name of the grandmother's only son?
That it had a secret panel with silver hidden in it
What lie did the grandmother tell to try and get Bailey to turn off to go see an old plantation house?
Bought Coca-Cola stock when it first came out
What made Mr. Teagarden wealthy?
The orange sports section of the "Journal"
What was her son reading when she tried to convince him not to go to Florida?
He didn't have any britches on
What was strange about the appearance of the little black boy standing in the door of a shack?
not a cloud in it not any sun
What was the sky like while grandmother talked with the "Misfit"?
Guns
What were the three men carrying?
The woods
Where did the "Misfit" order Bobby Lee and Hiram to take Bailey and John Wesley?
With the wind
Where did the grandmother say the plantation, now a graveyard, had gone?
East Tennessee
Where did the grandmother want to go instead of Florida?
The older skinny one with glasses and no shirt
Which man was familiar to the grandmother?
cat
Who did the "Misfit" leave alive?
Europe
Who did the grandmother blame for people not being nice and trustworthy anymore
Red Sam
Who first said the "a good man is hard to find?"
Red Sammy Butts (fat man)
Who owned "The Tower," a barbecue place they stopped for lunch?
He didn't look like he had common blood but came from good people
Why did grandmother say that the "Misfit" must be a good man?
Interesting to see how far they traveled
Why did the grandmother write down the mileage?
If they had an accident people seeing her on the side of the road would know she was a lady
Why was the grandmother dressed up?