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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 is generally blamed when literature is not studied the right way?
(a) The government.
(b) The parents.
(c) The teachers.
(d) The students.

2. Who is the Dixie Limited?
(a) Capote.
(b) Welty.
(c) Twain.
(d) Faulkner.

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

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

5. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?
(a) Who speaks for the poor today?
(b) Who speaks for America today?
(c) Who speaks for women today?
(d) Who speaks for the South today?

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author that O'Connor says is not a good writer, but his intent should not be judged?

2. What must a writer's moral sense coincide with?

3. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?

4. What kind of reader does O'Connor say "for all practical purposes" no longer exists?

5. What is the nickname for the South?

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