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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. In what city did O'Connor's friend from Wisconsin buy a house?
(a) Ocala.
(b) Chattanooga.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Macon.

2. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Matheson.
(d) Poe.

3. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?
(a) Christian dogma.
(b) God.
(c) The American dream.
(d) Good and evil.

4. O'Connor says that it is not fair to demand that novelists be what kind of novelists at the end of "The Teaching of Literature"?
(a) American.
(b) Influential.
(c) All-encompassing.
(d) Intellectual.

5. In what area of the United States do Catholic writers have the burden of regionalism to overcome?
(a) The West.
(b) The South.
(c) The Midwest.
(d) New England.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does O'Connor say is not well written but the author should not be judged by his intent?

2. What part of Catholicism does O'Connor say should help a person penetrate realities?

3. Who does O'Connor believe should do the evangelizing?

4. What writer does O'Connor say is an exception to the fact that Southern writers are not successfully cosmopolitan in fiction?

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

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