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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fiction Writer & His Country, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction and The Regional Writer.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?
(a) The Gothic Revival style of the home.
(b) A chicken.
(c) A prize-winning pig.
(d) O'Connor.

3. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?
(a) Anti-bourgeois.
(b) Non-American.
(c) Victorian.
(d) Philistine.

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

5. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Preachers.
(c) Critics.
(d) Writers.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did the old man respond when his children asked him what O'Connor's peacock was?

4. What ailment did Dr. Johnson's housekeeper have?

5. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?

(see the answer key)

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