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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. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Dante.
(c) Plato.
(d) Euripides.

2. Which of O'Connor's relatives did a man ask to relay a message to her about her type of characters?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

3. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) East of Eden.
(b) Tortilla Flats.
(c) Of Mice and Men.
(d) Cannery Row.

4. According to O'Connor, what do Northern authors consider everything written by Southerners?
(a) Simplistic.
(b) Religious.
(c) Sappy.
(d) Grotesque.

5. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) Hiroshima.
(b) A Bell for Adano.
(c) The Wall.
(d) Of Men and War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Henry James like better than America?

2. Which of O'Connor's relatives refused to accept that her story about a man who leaves his wife at an eatery was complete?

3. What is it generally supposed that Catholic writers use their fiction to do?

4. O'Connor knew an English teacher who asked students what the moral is to what novel?

5. What author does O'Connor use as an example of someone who is not present in his work?

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