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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 possession of O'Connor's mom did the peafowl eat systematically?
(a) Pets.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Bread loaves.

2. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?
(a) A bus.
(b) A roadrunner.
(c) A cheetah.
(d) An Oldsmobile.

3. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?
(a) Who speaks for women today?
(b) Who speaks for the South today?
(c) Who speaks for America today?
(d) Who speaks for the poor today?

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

5. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?
(a) The White Rabbit.
(b) Peter Rabbit.
(c) The Velvetine Rabbit.
(d) Br'er Rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Faulkner at home?

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

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

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

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