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

2. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) Hiroshima.
(b) A Bell for Adano.
(c) The Wall.
(d) Of Men and War.

3. What Catholic author wrote about Catholics who are vulgar, ignorant, and greedy?
(a) Walker Percy.
(b) Henry Timrod.
(c) Paul Hamilton Hayne,
(d) J. F. Powers.

4. What did the magazine editorial that challenged American writers say literature lacks?
(a) Supernatural elements.
(b) Violence.
(c) Energy.
(d) The joy of life.

5. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Dante.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose pig does not know what bacon is?

2. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of meaning?

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

4. Legend has it that St. Francis converted what?

5. Who does O'Connor say South Boston belongs to?

(see the answer key)

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