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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 called art "reason in making"?
(a) St. Petroc.
(b) St. Thomas.
(c) St. Mark.
(d) St. Kea.

2. What does O'Connor say fiction should deal with?
(a) Vague concepts.
(b) Reality.
(c) The subconscious.
(d) History.

3. Who said, "Purify the source"?
(a) Sartre.
(b) Mauriac.
(c) Camus.
(d) Perse.

4. O'Connor became frustrated because the writing students she addressed were looking for what?
(a) A formula.
(b) A mentor.
(c) Advice.
(d) To copy the British.

5. What does O'Connor say a writer needs but cannot get from a writing class?
(a) Experience.
(b) Vision.
(c) Competence.
(d) An epiphany.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connor says the Catholic reader forgets that there is a similarity between the sentimental and what?

2. Which of O'Connor's relatives refused to accept that her story about a man who leaves his wife at an eatery was complete?

3. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?

4. Granville Hicks reviewed a novel by whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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