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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 did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?
(a) Its bad attitude.
(b) Its coloring.
(c) Its legs.
(d) Its tail.

2. What does the Catholic reader separate nature from?
(a) Peace.
(b) Faith.
(c) Love.
(d) Grace.

3. Where were charity patients with cancer in New York sent during O'Connor's time?
(a) Homeless shelters.
(b) A nunnery.
(c) Blackwell's Island.
(d) The city's hospital.

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

5. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) East of Eden.
(b) Tortilla Flats.
(c) Cannery Row.
(d) Of Mice and Men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?

2. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?

3. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?

4. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?

5. What is the name of O'Connor's posthumous book of stories?

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