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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fiction Writer & His Country, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction and The Regional Writer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?
(a) The Violent Bear It Away.
(b) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(c) Wise Blood.
(d) A Good Man Is Hard To Find.

2. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?
(a) Good and evil.
(b) Christian dogma.
(c) The American dream.
(d) God.

3. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?
(a) Non-American.
(b) Philistine.
(c) Anti-bourgeois.
(d) Victorian.

4. How long can a peacock live?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 35 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 25 years.

5. Who is the Dixie Limited?
(a) Faulkner.
(b) Twain.
(c) Welty.
(d) Capote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What award did Percy Walker win?

2. What volunteer fire department was Mr. Montgomery a member of?

3. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?

4. What does O'Connor says causes Southerners anguish?

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

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