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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 presented materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at what college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Sarah Lawrence.
(c) Notre Dame.
(d) Yale.

2. What does O'Connor say is the ultimate reality?
(a) The good.
(b) The faith.
(c) The evil.
(d) The sin.

3. What Christian denomination does O'Connor follow?
(a) Methodism.
(b) Presbyterian.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Catholicism.

4. Who responds to a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers by saying "A Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not"?
(a) Brian McCarthy.
(b) Steve Spence.
(c) Tom Duepner.
(d) Philip Wylie.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connor says a society is understood by what?

2. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?

3. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?

4. Who said his aim as an artist was to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

5. At the beginning of "Total Effect and the Eighth Grade," how many instances does O'Connor mention parents objecting to their child's reading assignments?

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