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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Catholic Novelists and Their Readers and The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of O'Connor's relatives refused to accept that her story about a man who leaves his wife at an eatery was complete?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her husband.

2. Who said, "Purify the source"?
(a) Mauriac.
(b) Camus.
(c) Perse.
(d) Sartre.

3. What kind of answers do Catholics abide by?
(a) Complex.
(b) Instant.
(c) Sentimental.
(d) Rational.

4. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Cabbage.
(c) Startena.
(d) Cat food.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?

2. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?

3. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?

4. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?

5. Freedom is of no use without what?

(see the answer key)

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