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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does O'Connor say the serious writer is interested in?
(a) Pleasing the reader.
(b) Getting outside of their comfort zone.
(c) The habit of art.
(d) Studying and learning.

2. What type of people does O'Connor say Southerners can recognize?
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Freaks.
(c) Intellectuals.
(d) Spiritual.

3. What award did Percy Walker win?
(a) Regional Book Prize.
(b) National Book Award.
(c) Georgia Writers Grant.
(d) National Novelist Award.

4. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?
(a) Peter Rabbit.
(b) The Velvetine Rabbit.
(c) Br'er Rabbit.
(d) The White Rabbit.

5. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Updike.
(d) Whitman.

6. 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 brother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her mother.

7. What color was Colonel Eggbert?
(a) Red.
(b) Gray.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

8. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?
(a) Gulf Shores, Alabama.
(b) Chattanooga, Tennessee.
(c) Eustis, Florida.
(d) Macon, Georgia.

9. What author said that he writes romances, not novels?
(a) Hawthorne.
(b) Poe.
(c) Huxley.
(d) Orwell.

10. In what magazine did O'Connor read an editorial challenging her and other writers?
(a) Southern Living.
(b) Life.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Time.

11. Granville Hicks reviewed a novel by whom?
(a) Thomas Shepard.
(b) Samuel Willard.
(c) James Jones.
(d) John Wise.

12. Who called art "reason in making"?
(a) St. Kea.
(b) St. Petroc.
(c) St. Mark.
(d) St. Thomas.

13. Who is the author of "Summer Dust"?
(a) Amy Matthews.
(b) Caroline Gordon.
(c) Erin Carden.
(d) Linda Gray.

14. While some call "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" grotesque, what does O'Connor call it?
(a) Simplistic.
(b) Literal.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Conceptual.

15. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?
(a) The Gothic Revival style of the home.
(b) A chicken.
(c) O'Connor.
(d) A prize-winning pig.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Dixie Limited?

2. How long does it take for a cock's plumage to attain its pattern?

3. Who wrote the collection of stories called "Rotting Hill"?

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

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

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