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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. 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.

2. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Matheson.
(d) Poe.

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

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

5. O'Connor's friend told her that a bookstore clerk referred to "The Violent Bear It Away" with what title?
(a) The Bear That Ran Away With It.
(b) The Violets Bear Today.
(c) The Valiant Bloom Always.
(d) The One That Got Away.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how long did the telephone repairman wait to see a peacock strut?

2. From what newspaper was the photographer who visited O'Connor at her home?

3. When will a peacock regrow his feathers once he sheds?

4. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?

5. In what city did O'Connor's friend from Wisconsin buy a house?

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