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

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

3. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?
(a) Third.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) First.

4. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?
(a) A prize-winning pig.
(b) O'Connor.
(c) A chicken.
(d) The Gothic Revival style of the home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?

2. What does O'Connor say is the first reaction people have when they see a peacock's tail?

3. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?

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

5. What award did Percy Walker win?

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