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

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

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

4. University students in the 1920s created a pamphlet with what title?
(a) I'll Stand My Ground.
(b) I'll Take My Stand.
(c) I'll Put My Foot Down.
(d) I'll Stand and Be Heard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Most people try to create art that has what kind of value?

2. With what does O'Connor say there is a preoccupation in the work of Catholic writers of her time period?

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. What type of people does O'Connor say Southerners can recognize?

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