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

2. What ailment did Dr. Johnson's housekeeper have?
(a) She was arthritic.
(b) She was blind.
(c) She was deaf.
(d) She was missing a leg.

3. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?
(a) Lawmakers.
(b) Preachers.
(c) Poets.
(d) Advertising agencies.

4. How did the old man respond when his children asked him what O'Connor's peacock was?
(a) He says it is "a peacock and nothing more."
(b) He says it is "the king of the birds."
(c) He says it is an "overgrown chicken."
(d) He stands in silence before getting back in his car.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor say is the first reaction people have when they see a peacock's tail?

2. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?

3. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?

4. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?

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

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