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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Church and the Fiction Writer and Novelist and Believer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the magazine editorial that challenged American writers say literature lacks?
(a) Supernatural elements.
(b) Violence.
(c) Energy.
(d) The joy of life.

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

3. O'Connor is told that some students believe that anything that cannot be done using what is not worth doing?
(a) A calculator.
(b) Algebra.
(c) A thesaurus.
(d) Figures.

4. According to O'Connor, how is Redemption gained?
(a) Through Christ's life.
(b) Through Christ's resurrection.
(c) Through Christ's birth.
(d) Through Christ's death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Catholic reader separate nature from?

2. What is the name for someone who believes in religious dualism and the freedom of the soul from matter through asceticism?

3. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?

4. What color was Colonel Eggbert?

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

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