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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Nature and Aim of Fiction, Writing Short Stories and On Her Own Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connor's friend told her that a bookstore clerk referred to "The Violent Bear It Away" with what title?
(a) The Bear That Ran Away With It.
(b) The Violets Bear Today.
(c) The Valiant Bloom Always.
(d) The One That Got Away.

2. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?
(a) Preachers.
(b) Writers.
(c) Critics.
(d) Farmers.

3. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Vanderbilt.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cornell.

4. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) New York.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) St. Louis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Dixie Limited?

2. How many sections does the story "Summer Dust" have?

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

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

5. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?

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