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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 sort of eyes did O'Connor prefer chickens to have?
(a) One big and one little.
(b) One green and one orange.
(c) A shade of light blue.
(d) Very small and oval-shaped.

2. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?
(a) The peahen.
(b) Old women.
(c) Floridians.
(d) Children.

3. Henry James gave negative criticism by telling the writer that they have treated good subject manner in what kind of manner?
(a) Wordy.
(b) Straightforward.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Nostalgic.

4. What did O'Connor tell a classroom that there was no such thing as?
(a) A Work of Fiction.
(b) An American Novel.
(c) The Writer.
(d) A Critical Response.

5. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?
(a) An original.
(b) A realist.
(c) An artist.
(d) A genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?

2. O'Connor is told that some students believe that anything that cannot be done using what is not worth doing?

3. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?

4. Who wrote that the roots of the eye are in the heart?

5. What does O'Connor say fiction should deal with?

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