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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. According to O'Connor, what does the fiction writer seem to have a revolting attachment to?
(a) The future.
(b) The West.
(c) The past.
(d) Poverty.

2. Who said art does not necessitate restrictions?
(a) Saint Ignatius Loyola.
(b) Saint John Bosco.
(c) Saint Gerard Majella.
(d) Saint Thomas Aquinas.

3. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?
(a) The Violent Bear It Away.
(b) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(c) A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
(d) Wise Blood.

4. Who does O'Connor say South Boston belongs to?
(a) Allen Drury.
(b) James Agee.
(c) Robert Lewis Taylor.
(d) Edwin O'Connor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area of the United States do Catholic writers have the burden of regionalism to overcome?

2. What award did Percy Walker win?

3. What Catholic author wrote about Catholics who are vulgar, ignorant, and greedy?

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

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

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