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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Teaching of Literature and Total Effect and the Eighth Grade.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?
(a) Tripod.
(b) Gray hairs.
(c) Mini-tail.
(d) Underwear.

2. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?
(a) He would sell them at festivals.
(b) He would give them to needy children as gifts.
(c) He and his family would eat them.
(d) He gave them to O'Connor.

3. What must a writer's moral sense coincide with?
(a) His sense of piety.
(b) Facts and figures.
(c) His dramatic sense.
(d) His sense of compassion.

4. What kind of reader does O'Connor say "for all practical purposes" no longer exists?
(a) Nonfiction readers.
(b) Fiction readers.
(c) Short story readers.
(d) Poetry readers.

5. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?
(a) Chattanooga, Tennessee.
(b) Macon, Georgia.
(c) Gulf Shores, Alabama.
(d) Eustis, Florida.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connor mentions instances where parents from what state object to their child's reading assignments?

2. O'Connor says that it is not fair to demand that novelists be what kind of novelists at the end of "The Teaching of Literature"?

3. What does O'Connor say one should do if they want topics?

4. What author said that he writes romances, not novels?

5. What did an old woman cry when she finally saw the tail on O'Connor's peacock?

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