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

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

3. In what magazine did O'Connor read an editorial challenging her and other writers?
(a) Life.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Southern Living.
(d) Time.

4. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?
(a) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(b) A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
(c) Wise Blood.
(d) The Violent Bear It Away.

5. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?
(a) A cat who nursed a hen.
(b) A rooster who lived with no head.
(c) A chicken that mated with a turkey.
(d) A woman who owned 900 chickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author said that he writes romances, not novels?

2. How old was O'Connor when a photographer visited her in "The King of the Birds"?

3. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?

4. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?

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

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