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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. What does O'Connor says causes Southerners anguish?
(a) That the South is getting more like the rest of the country.
(b) That the South is alienated.
(c) That there are not enough jobs.
(d) That there are too many people in the South.

2. What did O'Connor tell a classroom that there was no such thing as?
(a) A Work of Fiction.
(b) An American Novel.
(c) The Writer.
(d) A Critical Response.

3. Where was Faulkner at home?
(a) New York.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Savannah.
(d) Nashville.

4. What does O'Connor think English teachers can help change?
(a) The rate of high school drop outs.
(b) The number of college students who have all A's.
(c) The best-seller list.
(d) The education systems in third world countries.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what magazine did O'Connor read an editorial challenging her and other writers?

2. What was the title of the course that O'Connor addressed in The Nature and Aim of Fiction?

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

4. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?

5. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?

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