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

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

3. What did the magazine editorial that challenged American writers say literature lacks?
(a) The joy of life.
(b) Energy.
(c) Violence.
(d) Supernatural elements.

4. What does O'Connor say is a word that sounds good in anyone's mouth that no book jacket can do without?
(a) Kindness.
(b) Gratitude.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Compassion.

5. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Plato.
(c) Dante.
(d) Shakespeare.

Short Answer Questions

1. University students in the 1920s created a pamphlet with what title?

2. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?

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

4. What did an old woman cry when she finally saw the tail on O'Connor's peacock?

5. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?

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