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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. What reason did O'Connor give a female student who asked her why she writes?
(a) "It pays the bills."
(b) "Because I'm good at it."
(c) "I can't do anything else."
(d) "I don't write; I create."

2. What award did Percy Walker win?
(a) National Novelist Award.
(b) Georgia Writers Grant.
(c) National Book Award.
(d) Regional Book Prize.

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

4. What does O'Connor say a writer needs but cannot get from a writing class?
(a) Vision.
(b) Competence.
(c) An epiphany.
(d) Experience.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?

2. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?

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

4. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?

5. O'Connor became frustrated because the writing students she addressed were looking for what?

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