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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. Who does O'Connor mention wrestles with an angel in the Bible?
(a) Jesse.
(b) Aaron.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Samson.

2. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?
(a) Who speaks for women today?
(b) Who speaks for America today?
(c) Who speaks for the South today?
(d) Who speaks for the poor today?

3. What was the title of the course that O'Connor addressed in The Nature and Aim of Fiction?
(a) The Writing Process.
(b) How the Writer Writes.
(c) Inside the Novelist's Mind.
(d) How Novels are Written.

4. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?
(a) An original.
(b) A realist.
(c) A genius.
(d) An artist.

5. What is it generally supposed that Catholic writers use their fiction to do?
(a) Express the evils of the world.
(b) Display a love of the Church.
(c) Show that Protestanrs are wrong.
(d) Prove the truth of Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of answers do Catholics abide by?

2. What award did Percy Walker win?

3. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?

4. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?

5. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?

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