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

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

3. Who wrote the collection of stories called "Rotting Hill"?
(a) Wyndham Lewis.
(b) Wendall Lane.
(c) William Louis.
(d) Willard Linus.

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

5. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?
(a) A foot.
(b) Its tail.
(c) A wing.
(d) An eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item of clothing did Colonel Eggbert wear?

2. What sort of eyes did O'Connor prefer chickens to have?

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

4. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?

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

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