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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connor says no other writer was hotter after the dollar than whom?
(a) Henry James.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

2. What is the wife's name in a story that O'Connor recalls about a man who tells his wife that her birthmark shocks him?
(a) Minerva.
(b) Eloise.
(c) Helena.
(d) Georgiana.

3. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Dante.
(d) Plato.

4. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?
(a) He would give them to needy children as gifts.
(b) He would sell them at festivals.
(c) He and his family would eat them.
(d) He gave them to O'Connor.

5. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?
(a) The peahen.
(b) Children.
(c) Floridians.
(d) Old women.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did O'Connor see the ad for her first peafowl?

2. Which of O'Connor's relatives refused to accept that her story about a man who leaves his wife at an eatery was complete?

3. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?

4. Freedom is of no use without what?

5. What is the nickname for the South?

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