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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 does O'Connor say is a word that sounds good in anyone's mouth that no book jacket can do without?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Kindness.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Gratitude.

2. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Sociologists.
(c) Psychologists.
(d) Students.

3. What does the Catholic reader separate nature from?
(a) Love.
(b) Grace.
(c) Peace.
(d) Faith.

4. Granville Hicks reviewed a novel by whom?
(a) John Wise.
(b) Thomas Shepard.
(c) James Jones.
(d) Samuel Willard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connor's friend told her that a bookstore clerk referred to "The Violent Bear It Away" with what title?

2. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?

3. What must a writer's moral sense coincide with?

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

5. What ailment did Dr. Johnson's housekeeper have?

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