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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. Which character in fiction is usually disturbing to the reader?
(a) The character who is physically ill.
(b) The freak.
(c) The poor man.
(d) The violent woman.

2. How long can a peacock live?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 35 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 25 years.

3. How many peafowl did O'Connor have after nine years?
(a) 60.
(b) 50.
(c) 40.
(d) 70.

4. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?
(a) Sociologists.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Psychologists.
(d) Students.

5. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) LaSalle College.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Cornell University.
(d) Brown University.

Short Answer Questions

1. When will a peacock regrow his feathers once he sheds?

2. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?

3. What must a writer's moral sense coincide with?

4. Who said his aim as an artist was to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

5. Who wrote the collection of stories called "Rotting Hill"?

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