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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Catholic Novelists and Their Readers and The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?
(a) A woman who owned 900 chickens.
(b) A cat who nursed a hen.
(c) A rooster who lived with no head.
(d) A chicken that mated with a turkey.

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

3. Who said, "Purify the source"?
(a) Mauriac.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Camus.
(d) Perse.

4. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?
(a) Its tail.
(b) A wing.
(c) An eye.
(d) A foot.

5. O'Connor says that it is not fair to demand that novelists be what kind of novelists at the end of "The Teaching of Literature"?
(a) All-encompassing.
(b) Influential.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) American.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much was a pair of peafowl that O'Connor saw in the paper?

2. In what month did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?

3. What author does O'Connor point to in the first sentence of The Church and the Fiction Writer?

4. What sort of eyes did O'Connor prefer chickens to have?

5. Freedom is of no use without what?

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