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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. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) Hollywood.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) New York.
(d) Atlanta.

2. About how long did the telephone repairman wait to see a peacock strut?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 45 minutes.
(d) One hour.

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

4. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?
(a) An eye.
(b) A foot.
(c) A wing.
(d) Its tail.

5. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?
(a) Preachers.
(b) Advertising agencies.
(c) Poets.
(d) Lawmakers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?

3. 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?

4. Who is the author of "Summer Dust"?

5. Granville Hicks reviewed a novel by whom?

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