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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 possession of O'Connor's mom did the peafowl eat systematically?
(a) Pets.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Bread loaves.
(d) Flowers.

2. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?
(a) A cheetah.
(b) An Oldsmobile.
(c) A bus.
(d) A roadrunner.

3. How much was a pair of peafowl that O'Connor saw in the paper?
(a) $20.
(b) $65.
(c) $150.
(d) $30.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?

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

3. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?

4. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?

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

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