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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. What color was the helmet of the telephone repairman that came to O'Connor's farm?
(a) Blue.
(b) Orange.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

2. Where was Faulkner at home?
(a) New York.
(b) Nashville.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Savannah.

3. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?
(a) An original.
(b) An artist.
(c) A genius.
(d) A realist.

4. Legend has it that St. Francis converted what?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A snake.
(d) A bear.

5. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?
(a) Psychologists.
(b) Students.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Sociologists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname for the South?

2. What is the name of the little boy who O'Connor uses as an example of why bad children make interesting stories?

3. What does O'Connor say that most people interested in writing are not interested in?

4. What was the title of the course that O'Connor addressed in The Nature and Aim of Fiction?

5. What is the name of the story O'Connor recalls where a man tells his wife that her birthmark shocks him?

(see the answer key)

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