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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What possession of O'Connor's mom did the peafowl eat systematically?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Pets.
(c) Bread loaves.
(d) Flowers.

2. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?
(a) Christian dogma.
(b) Good and evil.
(c) The American dream.
(d) God.

3. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Matheson.
(d) Poe.

4. O'Connor knew an English teacher who asked students what the moral is to what novel?
(a) Moby Dick.
(b) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(c) Billy Budd.
(d) The Scarlet Letter.

5. What reason did O'Connor give a female student who asked her why she writes?
(a) "Because I'm good at it."
(b) "I can't do anything else."
(c) "I don't write; I create."
(d) "It pays the bills."

Short Answer Questions

1. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

2. Who said, "Purify the source"?

3. In what year did O'Connor receive a letter from a nun asking her to write a book about a deformed girl?

4. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?

5. What was the title of the course that O'Connor addressed in The Nature and Aim of Fiction?

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