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

2. What is the name of O'Connor's posthumous book of stories?
(a) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(b) Greenleaf.
(c) A View of the Woods.
(d) The Enduring Chill.

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

4. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?
(a) The devil.
(b) Sin.
(c) Anger.
(d) Money.

5. Freedom is of no use without what?
(a) Justice.
(b) Charm.
(c) Taste.
(d) Rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor say one should do if they want topics?

2. Who said art does not necessitate restrictions?

3. How much was a pair of peafowl that O'Connor saw in the paper?

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"?

5. O'Connor's friend told her that a bookstore clerk referred to "The Violent Bear It Away" with what title?

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