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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. What part of Catholicism does O'Connor say should help a person penetrate realities?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Dogma.
(d) Communion.

2. What Christian denomination does O'Connor follow?
(a) Methodism.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Catholicism.

3. Whose pig does not know what bacon is?
(a) Mr. Sosebee.
(b) Mr. McRae.
(c) Mr. Jarrell.
(d) Mr. Harper.

4. What is O'Connor's advice for writers who do not want to be regional?
(a) Only write fiction.
(b) Be an American writer.
(c) Move to an unfamiliar region.
(d) Only write fantasy and science fiction.

5. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?
(a) Preachers.
(b) Critics.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Writers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote an essay saying the woman of the future will know nothing of mystery or manners?

2. Who is generally blamed when literature is not studied the right way?

3. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?

4. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?

5. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?

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