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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Catholic Novelists and Their Readers and The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) East of Eden.
(b) Of Mice and Men.
(c) Tortilla Flats.
(d) Cannery Row.

2. For a writer of fiction, everything has its testing point in what body part?
(a) The eye.
(b) The hand.
(c) The ear.
(d) The mouth.

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

4. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?
(a) Sin.
(b) Money.
(c) The devil.
(d) Anger.

5. What artist was John Peale Bishop referring to when he claimed that you cannot say this person painted apples and tablecloth and say what he has painted?
(a) Gauguin.
(b) Cezanne.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Redon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item of clothing did Colonel Eggbert wear?

2. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?

3. What part of Catholicism does O'Connor say should help a person penetrate realities?

4. Henry James gave negative criticism by telling the writer that they have treated good subject manner in what kind of manner?

5. With what does O'Connor say there is a preoccupation in the work of Catholic writers of her time period?

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