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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 did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?
(a) A prize-winning pig.
(b) A chicken.
(c) O'Connor.
(d) The Gothic Revival style of the home.

2. What kind of reader does O'Connor say "for all practical purposes" no longer exists?
(a) Nonfiction readers.
(b) Poetry readers.
(c) Fiction readers.
(d) Short story readers.

3. In what month did O'Connor receive a manuscript from nuns who had written about a deformed girl?
(a) October.
(b) June.
(c) August.
(d) March.

4. Where were charity patients with cancer in New York sent during O'Connor's time?
(a) Homeless shelters.
(b) Blackwell's Island.
(c) A nunnery.
(d) The city's hospital.

5. How old was O'Connor when a photographer visited her in "The King of the Birds"?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most people try to create art that has what kind of value?

2. About how long did the telephone repairman wait to see a peacock strut?

3. According to O'Connor, what do Northern authors consider everything written by Southerners?

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

5. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?

(see the answer key)

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