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

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

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

4. What country did Henry James like better than America?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Canada.
(c) England.
(d) Ireland.

5. What type of artist does O'Connor say is most deviled by the public?
(a) Painter.
(b) Fiction writer.
(c) Musician.
(d) Poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said art does not necessitate restrictions?

2. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?

3. What did the magazine editorial that challenged American writers say literature lacks?

4. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?

5. What family member of O'Connor's reviewed her novel for her high school class?

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