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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. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) Hollywood.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) New York.
(d) St. Louis.

3. Where did O'Connor see the ad for her first peafowl?
(a) The Florida Express.
(b) The Daily Mail.
(c) The Bazaar.
(d) The Market Bulletin.

4. What did an old woman cry when she finally saw the tail on O'Connor's peacock?
(a) "God bless America!"
(b) "Amen! Amen!"
(c) "Praise God!"
(d) "Hallelujah!"

5. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?
(a) Anti-bourgeois.
(b) Non-American.
(c) Victorian.
(d) Philistine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor say fiction should deal with?

2. 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"?

3. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?

4. Who said that the artist is concerned with the good of that which is made?

5. Legend has it that St. Francis converted what?

(see the answer key)

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