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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 family member of O'Connor's reviewed her novel for her high school class?
(a) Sister.
(b) Niece.
(c) Daughter.
(d) Cousin.

2. What is the name for someone who believes in religious dualism and the freedom of the soul from matter through asceticism?
(a) Bosnian.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Manichean.
(d) Esoteric Christian.

3. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?
(a) Mini-tail.
(b) Gray hairs.
(c) Underwear.
(d) Tripod.

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

5. In what magazine did O'Connor read an editorial challenging her and other writers?
(a) Life.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Time.
(d) Southern Living.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor say the serious writer is interested in?

2. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?

3. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?

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

5. Where was Faulkner at home?

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