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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. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?
(a) A bus.
(b) A roadrunner.
(c) A cheetah.
(d) An Oldsmobile.

2. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Dante.
(c) Plato.
(d) Euripides.

3. Where did O'Connor see the ad for her first peafowl?
(a) The Daily Mail.
(b) The Bazaar.
(c) The Florida Express.
(d) The Market Bulletin.

4. O'Connor says no other writer was hotter after the dollar than whom?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Mark Twain.

5. When will a peacock regrow his feathers once he sheds?
(a) Near the first day of spring.
(b) After Memorial Day.
(c) After Easter.
(d) After Christmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Freedom is of no use without what?

2. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?

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

4. How many peafowl did O'Connor buy from an ad in a paper?

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

(see the answer key)

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