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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. O'Connor is told that some students believe that anything that cannot be done using what is not worth doing?
(a) A thesaurus.
(b) A calculator.
(c) Figures.
(d) Algebra.

2. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?
(a) Elvis Presley.
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(c) Pope Leo XIII.
(d) St. Cyril.

3. Henry James gave negative criticism by telling the writer that they have treated good subject manner in what kind of manner?
(a) Nostalgic.
(b) Straightforward.
(c) Wordy.
(d) Confusing.

4. What author does O'Connor point to in the first sentence of The Church and the Fiction Writer?
(a) Graham Greene.
(b) Harper Lee.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) J.D. Salinger.

5. What does O'Connor says causes Southerners anguish?
(a) That the South is getting more like the rest of the country.
(b) That there are not enough jobs.
(c) That there are too many people in the South.
(d) That the South is alienated.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many peafowl did O'Connor have after nine years?

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

3. Who was Baron von Hugel?

4. Who wrote an essay saying the woman of the future will know nothing of mystery or manners?

5. What did O'Connor tell a classroom that there was no such thing as?

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