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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 did an old woman cry when she finally saw the tail on O'Connor's peacock?
(a) "God bless America!"
(b) "Hallelujah!"
(c) "Praise God!"
(d) "Amen! Amen!"

2. What does O'Connor say the serious writer is interested in?
(a) Studying and learning.
(b) The habit of art.
(c) Pleasing the reader.
(d) Getting outside of their comfort zone.

3. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) LaSalle College.
(b) Brown University.
(c) Columbia University.
(d) Cornell University.

4. What artist was John Peale Bishop referring to when he claimed that you cannot say this person painted apples and tablecloth and say what he has painted?
(a) Redon.
(b) Cezanne.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Gauguin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of meaning?

2. What is the name of O'Connor's posthumous book of stories?

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

4. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?

5. Who responds to a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers by saying "A Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not"?

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