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

2. Freedom is of no use without what?
(a) Rights.
(b) Taste.
(c) Charm.
(d) Justice.

3. What sort of eyes did O'Connor prefer chickens to have?
(a) A shade of light blue.
(b) One big and one little.
(c) One green and one orange.
(d) Very small and oval-shaped.

4. With what does O'Connor say there is a preoccupation in the work of Catholic writers of her time period?
(a) Violence.
(b) Happy endings.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Sex.

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. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?

2. What was the title of the course that O'Connor addressed in The Nature and Aim of Fiction?

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

4. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?

5. O'Connor says a society is understood by what?

(see the answer key)

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