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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Catholic Novelists and Their Readers and The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?
(a) St. Cyril.
(b) Elvis Presley.
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(d) Pope Leo XIII.

2. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?
(a) Sociologists.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Students.
(d) Psychologists.

3. What writer does O'Connor say is an exception to the fact that Southern writers are not successfully cosmopolitan in fiction?
(a) Richard Ford.
(b) Winston Groom.
(c) Katherine Anne Porter.
(d) Lewis Nordan.

4. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?
(a) Write as if everyone in the country is rich.
(b) Write too abstractly, confusing readers.
(c) Write about being poor.
(d) Write too much like British writers.

5. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?
(a) The White Rabbit.
(b) Br'er Rabbit.
(c) Peter Rabbit.
(d) The Velvetine Rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor think English teachers can help change?

2. What type of people does O'Connor say Southerners can recognize?

3. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?

4. What Christian denomination does O'Connor follow?

5. What country did Henry James like better than America?

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