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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 did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?
(a) Underwear.
(b) Mini-tail.
(c) Tripod.
(d) Gray hairs.

2. Who said if you want to write stories not to drive the poor from your doorstep?
(a) Melville.
(b) Kipling.
(c) Garrison.
(d) Whitman.

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

4. Who responds to a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers by saying "A Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not"?
(a) Brian McCarthy.
(b) Steve Spence.
(c) Philip Wylie.
(d) Tom Duepner.

5. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Updike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Christian denomination does O'Connor follow?

2. Who does O'Connor mention wrestles with an angel in the Bible?

3. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?

4. O'Connor says no other writer was hotter after the dollar than whom?

5. What Catholic author wrote about Catholics who are vulgar, ignorant, and greedy?

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