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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 O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?
(a) A rooster who lived with no head.
(b) A chicken that mated with a turkey.
(c) A woman who owned 900 chickens.
(d) A cat who nursed a hen.

2. What author does O'Connor use as an example of someone who is not present in his work?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Alexander Pope.
(d) Richard Matheson.

3. What did O'Connor tell a classroom that there was no such thing as?
(a) An American Novel.
(b) A Work of Fiction.
(c) A Critical Response.
(d) The Writer.

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

5. Which of O'Connor's relatives refused to accept that her story about a man who leaves his wife at an eatery was complete?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who called art "reason in making"?

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

3. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?

4. What reason did O'Connor give a female student who asked her why she writes?

5. Legend has it that St. Francis converted what?

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