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

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

3. What color was Colonel Eggbert?
(a) Brown.
(b) White.
(c) Gray.
(d) Red.

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

5. How did the old man respond when his children asked him what O'Connor's peacock was?
(a) He stands in silence before getting back in his car.
(b) He says it is "the king of the birds."
(c) He says it is "a peacock and nothing more."
(d) He says it is an "overgrown chicken."

Short Answer Questions

1. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?

2. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?

3. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?

4. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?

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

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