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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 were the subjects called when O'Connor was in high school?
(a) Activities.
(b) Topics.
(c) Adventures.
(d) Courses.

2. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?
(a) Its tail.
(b) Its bad attitude.
(c) Its coloring.
(d) Its legs.

3. What artist was John Peale Bishop referring to when he claimed that you cannot say this person painted apples and tablecloth and say what he has painted?
(a) Cezanne.
(b) Redon.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Gauguin.

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

5. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?
(a) Cabbage.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Startena.
(d) Cat food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?

2. Where was Faulkner at home?

3. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?

4. What Christian denomination does O'Connor follow?

5. O'Connor says the Catholic reader forgets that there is a similarity between the sentimental and what?

(see the answer key)

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