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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said his aim as an artist was to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
(a) James.
(b) Twain.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Joyce.

2. What is the nickname for the South?
(a) The Bible District.
(b) The Bible Belt.
(c) The Bible Area.
(d) The Bible Layer.

3. Who said if you want to write stories not to drive the poor from your doorstep?
(a) Melville.
(b) Kipling.
(c) Garrison.
(d) Whitman.

4. What is it generally supposed that Catholic writers use their fiction to do?
(a) Show that Protestanrs are wrong.
(b) Prove the truth of Faith.
(c) Display a love of the Church.
(d) Express the evils of the world.

5. What family member of O'Connor's reviewed her novel for her high school class?
(a) Cousin.
(b) Niece.
(c) Daughter.
(d) Sister.

6. How many fundamental truths do Catholic writers live and work in?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

7. For a writer of fiction, everything has its testing point in what body part?
(a) The hand.
(b) The mouth.
(c) The eye.
(d) The ear.

8. What writer does O'Connor say is an exception to the fact that Southern writers are not successfully cosmopolitan in fiction?
(a) Katherine Anne Porter.
(b) Richard Ford.
(c) Winston Groom.
(d) Lewis Nordan.

9. Who responds to a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers by saying "A Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not"?
(a) Brian McCarthy.
(b) Tom Duepner.
(c) Steve Spence.
(d) Philip Wylie.

10. When does O'Connor say humanity lost its innocence?
(a) During Christ's resurrection.
(b) During Christ's death.
(c) During the Fall.
(d) When we are born.

11. Who does O'Connor believe should do the evangelizing?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Evangelists.
(c) Writers.
(d) Artists.

12. Who is the author that O'Connor says is not a good writer, but his intent should not be judged?
(a) Cardinal O'Grady.
(b) Cardinal Spellman.
(c) Cardinal Hawkins.
(d) Cardinal Mencia.

13. What Christian denomination does O'Connor follow?
(a) Presbyterian.
(b) Methodism.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Catholicism.

14. Most people try to create art that has what kind of value?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Utilitarian.
(c) Monetary.
(d) Truthful.

15. What must a writer's moral sense coincide with?
(a) His sense of piety.
(b) His sense of compassion.
(c) Facts and figures.
(d) His dramatic sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to O'Connor, what does the fiction writer seem to have a revolting attachment to?

2. When does O'Connor say she figured out what fiction was?

3. Who said, "Purify the source"?

4. What were the subjects called when O'Connor was in high school?

5. Who wrote an essay saying the woman of the future will know nothing of mystery or manners?

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