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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. Who does O'Connor say South Boston belongs to?
(a) Edwin O'Connor.
(b) Allen Drury.
(c) James Agee.
(d) Robert Lewis Taylor.

2. What country did Henry James like better than America?
(a) Canada.
(b) Ireland.
(c) England.
(d) Mexico.

3. What is the nickname for the South?
(a) The Bible Layer.
(b) The Bible Belt.
(c) The Bible District.
(d) The Bible Area.

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

5. What does O'Connor refer to as a "complete dramatic action"?
(a) A movement.
(b) A story.
(c) A scene.
(d) A novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of reader does O'Connor say "for all practical purposes" no longer exists?

2. Who called art "reason in making"?

3. Who said his aim as an artist was to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

4. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?

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

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