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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. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?
(a) Christian dogma.
(b) Good and evil.
(c) The American dream.
(d) God.

2. What volunteer fire department was Mr. Montgomery a member of?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Crawford.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Biloxi.

3. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?
(a) An original.
(b) An artist.
(c) A genius.
(d) A realist.

4. What award did Percy Walker win?
(a) Georgia Writers Grant.
(b) Regional Book Prize.
(c) National Novelist Award.
(d) National Book Award.

5. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?
(a) Write as if everyone in the country is rich.
(b) Write about being poor.
(c) Write too abstractly, confusing readers.
(d) Write too much like British writers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?

2. What type of people does O'Connor say Southerners can recognize?

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

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

5. How long does it take for a cock's plumage to attain its pattern?

(see the answer key)

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