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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. What does O'Connor think English teachers can help change?
(a) The education systems in third world countries.
(b) The rate of high school drop outs.
(c) The number of college students who have all A's.
(d) The best-seller list.

2. How old was O'Connor when a photographer visited her in "The King of the Birds"?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) Brown University.
(b) LaSalle College.
(c) Cornell University.
(d) Columbia University.

4. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?
(a) Who speaks for America today?
(b) Who speaks for women today?
(c) Who speaks for the South today?
(d) Who speaks for the poor today?

5. What was the title of the course that O'Connor addressed in The Nature and Aim of Fiction?
(a) Inside the Novelist's Mind.
(b) How Novels are Written.
(c) How the Writer Writes.
(d) The Writing Process.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connor is told that some students believe that anything that cannot be done using what is not worth doing?

2. What author does O'Connor point to in the first sentence of The Church and the Fiction Writer?

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

4. How often does the college publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers come out?

5. When does O'Connor say she figured out what fiction was?

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