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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 must a writer's moral sense coincide with?
(a) His dramatic sense.
(b) Facts and figures.
(c) His sense of compassion.
(d) His sense of piety.

2. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) Of Mice and Men.
(b) Cannery Row.
(c) Tortilla Flats.
(d) East of Eden.

3. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) Hollywood.
(b) New York.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) St. Louis.

4. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?
(a) Gray hairs.
(b) Underwear.
(c) Tripod.
(d) Mini-tail.

5. What were the subjects called when O'Connor was in high school?
(a) Adventures.
(b) Activities.
(c) Courses.
(d) Topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?

2. Granville Hicks reviewed a novel by whom?

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

4. What is O'Connor's advice for writers who do not want to be regional?

5. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?

(see the answer key)

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