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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 emotion does the Catholic novelist sometimes feel when he views what he is supposed to do as a Catholic and as a novelist?
(a) Excitement.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Angst.
(d) Joy.

2. According to O'Connor, how is Redemption gained?
(a) Through Christ's life.
(b) Through Christ's death.
(c) Through Christ's birth.
(d) Through Christ's resurrection.

3. What is the name for someone who believes in religious dualism and the freedom of the soul from matter through asceticism?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Bosnian.
(c) Esoteric Christian.
(d) Manichean.

4. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?
(a) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(b) A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
(c) Wise Blood.
(d) The Violent Bear It Away.

5. O'Connor presented materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at what college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Sarah Lawrence.
(c) Yale.
(d) Notre Dame.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Henry James like better than America?

2. What is O'Connor's advice for writers who do not want to be regional?

3. What does O'Connor say has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for?

4. Who was Baron von Hugel?

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

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