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

2. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?
(a) Psychologists.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Students.
(d) Sociologists.

3. Which of O'Connor's relatives did a man ask to relay a message to her about her type of characters?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

4. What color was Colonel Eggbert?
(a) Red.
(b) Gray.
(c) Brown.
(d) White.

5. Who said that the artist is concerned with the good of that which is made?
(a) St. Thomas.
(b) St. Maro.
(c) St. Aaron.
(d) St. Patrick.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote an essay saying the woman of the future will know nothing of mystery or manners?

3. What did O'Connor tell a classroom that there was no such thing as?

4. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?

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

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