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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 is O'Connor's advice for writers who do not want to be regional?
(a) Move to an unfamiliar region.
(b) Only write fantasy and science fiction.
(c) Only write fiction.
(d) Be an American writer.

2. What is it generally supposed that Catholic writers use their fiction to do?
(a) Prove the truth of Faith.
(b) Show that Protestanrs are wrong.
(c) Display a love of the Church.
(d) Express the evils of the world.

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

4. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Yale.
(c) Vanderbilt.
(d) Harvard.

5. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?
(a) Advertising agencies.
(b) Lawmakers.
(c) Preachers.
(d) Poets.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to O'Connor, what do Northern authors consider everything written by Southerners?

2. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?

3. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

4. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?

5. What kind of reader does O'Connor say "for all practical purposes" no longer exists?

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