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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Church and the Fiction Writer and Novelist and Believer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While some call "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" grotesque, what does O'Connor call it?
(a) Conceptual.
(b) Literal.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Simplistic.

2. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?
(a) A cat who nursed a hen.
(b) A rooster who lived with no head.
(c) A chicken that mated with a turkey.
(d) A woman who owned 900 chickens.

3. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) The Wall.
(b) A Bell for Adano.
(c) Hiroshima.
(d) Of Men and War.

4. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?
(a) Christian dogma.
(b) The American dream.
(c) God.
(d) Good and evil.

5. O'Connor says that it is not fair to demand that novelists be what kind of novelists at the end of "The Teaching of Literature"?
(a) American.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Influential.
(d) All-encompassing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long can a peacock live?

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

3. What country did Henry James like better than America?

4. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?

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

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