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

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

3. What is O'Connor's advice for writers who do not want to be regional?
(a) Be an American writer.
(b) Only write fiction.
(c) Only write fantasy and science fiction.
(d) Move to an unfamiliar region.

4. What color was Colonel Eggbert?
(a) White.
(b) Brown.
(c) Gray.
(d) Red.

5. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?
(a) Write too much like British writers.
(b) Write too abstractly, confusing readers.
(c) Write as if everyone in the country is rich.
(d) Write about being poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Faulkner at home?

2. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?

3. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?

4. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?

5. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?

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