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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. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?
(a) Matheson.
(b) Poe.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Conrad.

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

3. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?
(a) He would sell them at festivals.
(b) He and his family would eat them.
(c) He gave them to O'Connor.
(d) He would give them to needy children as gifts.

4. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?
(a) A rooster who lived with no head.
(b) A cat who nursed a hen.
(c) A chicken that mated with a turkey.
(d) A woman who owned 900 chickens.

5. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Eustis, Florida.
(c) Gulf Shores, Alabama.
(d) Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?

4. Where was Faulkner at home?

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

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