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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. How long does it take for a cock's plumage to attain its pattern?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 5 weeks.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 2 years.

2. University students in the 1920s created a pamphlet with what title?
(a) I'll Take My Stand.
(b) I'll Stand My Ground.
(c) I'll Stand and Be Heard.
(d) I'll Put My Foot Down.

3. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Eustis, Florida.
(c) Chattanooga, Tennessee.
(d) Gulf Shores, Alabama.

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

5. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?
(a) Anagogical.
(b) Undisguised.
(c) Natural.
(d) Palpable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?

2. Who called art "reason in making"?

3. What item of clothing did Colonel Eggbert wear?

4. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?

5. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?

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