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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Teaching of Literature and Total Effect and the Eighth Grade.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of O'Connor's relatives refused to accept that her story about a man who leaves his wife at an eatery was complete?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her mother.

2. Who wrote the collection of stories called "Rotting Hill"?
(a) Wyndham Lewis.
(b) Willard Linus.
(c) Wendall Lane.
(d) William Louis.

3. How many peafowl did O'Connor have after nine years?
(a) 70.
(b) 60.
(c) 40.
(d) 50.

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

5. From what newspaper was the photographer who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) Pathe News.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Weekly Report.
(d) USA Today.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor refer to as a "complete dramatic action"?

2. What does O'Connor say is the first reaction people have when they see a peacock's tail?

3. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?

4. According to O'Connor, what does the fiction writer seem to have a revolting attachment to?

5. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

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