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

2. University students in the 1920s created a pamphlet with what title?
(a) I'll Stand and Be Heard.
(b) I'll Take My Stand.
(c) I'll Stand My Ground.
(d) I'll Put My Foot Down.

3. What does O'Connor say is the first reaction people have when they see a peacock's tail?
(a) Silence.
(b) Laughter.
(c) Gasp.
(d) Tears.

4. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?
(a) Startena.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Cat food.
(d) Cabbage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What award did Percy Walker win?

2. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?

3. Where did O'Connor see the ad for her first peafowl?

4. What did the magazine editorial that challenged American writers say literature lacks?

5. What possession of O'Connor's mom did the peafowl eat systematically?

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