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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. What award did Percy Walker win?
(a) Regional Book Prize.
(b) National Novelist Award.
(c) Georgia Writers Grant.
(d) National Book Award.

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

3. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Poe.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Matheson.

4. How old was O'Connor when a photographer visited her in "The King of the Birds"?
(a) 5.
(b) 15.
(c) 3.
(d) 12.

5. What type of people does O'Connor say Southerners can recognize?
(a) Freaks.
(b) Intellectuals.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what newspaper was the photographer who visited O'Connor at her home?

3. Where was Faulkner at home?

4. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?

5. What ailment did Dr. Johnson's housekeeper have?

(see the answer key)

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