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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 did O'Connor see the ad for her first peafowl?
(a) The Market Bulletin.
(b) The Bazaar.
(c) The Daily Mail.
(d) The Florida Express.

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

3. In what city did O'Connor's friend from Wisconsin buy a house?
(a) Chattanooga.
(b) Macon.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Ocala.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was a pair of peafowl that O'Connor saw in the paper?

2. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?

3. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?

4. How many peafowl did O'Connor have after nine years?

5. According to O'Connor, what do Northern authors consider everything written by Southerners?

(see the answer key)

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