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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Nature and Aim of Fiction, Writing Short Stories and On Her Own Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What type of people does O'Connor say Southerners can recognize?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Freaks.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Intellectuals.

3. What author said that he writes romances, not novels?
(a) Huxley.
(b) Hawthorne.
(c) Orwell.
(d) Poe.

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

5. Who called art "reason in making"?
(a) St. Petroc.
(b) St. Mark.
(c) St. Thomas.
(d) St. Kea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?

2. University students in the 1920s created a pamphlet with what title?

3. What does O'Connor say fiction should deal with?

4. O'Connor says no other writer was hotter after the dollar than whom?

5. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?

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