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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fiction Writer & His Country, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction and The Regional Writer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how long did the telephone repairman wait to see a peacock strut?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) One hour.

2. Where did O'Connor see the ad for her first peafowl?
(a) The Market Bulletin.
(b) The Daily Mail.
(c) The Bazaar.
(d) The Florida Express.

3. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?
(a) Non-American.
(b) Anti-bourgeois.
(c) Philistine.
(d) Victorian.

4. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?
(a) Its tail.
(b) Its coloring.
(c) Its bad attitude.
(d) Its legs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. University students in the 1920s created a pamphlet with what title?

2. What award did Percy Walker win?

3. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?

4. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?

5. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?

(see the answer key)

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