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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 character in fiction is usually disturbing to the reader?
(a) The freak.
(b) The poor man.
(c) The character who is physically ill.
(d) The violent woman.

2. How long can a peacock live?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 35 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 10 years.

3. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?
(a) Its tail.
(b) Its coloring.
(c) Its legs.
(d) Its bad attitude.

4. O'Connor says that it is not fair to demand that novelists be what kind of novelists at the end of "The Teaching of Literature"?
(a) All-encompassing.
(b) American.
(c) Influential.
(d) Intellectual.

5. How old was O'Connor when a photographer visited her in "The King of the Birds"?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many peafowl did O'Connor buy from an ad in a paper?

2. O'Connor became frustrated because the writing students she addressed were looking for what?

3. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?

4. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?

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

(see the answer key)

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