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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the old man respond when his children asked him what O'Connor's peacock was?
(a) He says it is "the king of the birds."
(b) He stands in silence before getting back in his car.
(c) He says it is "a peacock and nothing more."
(d) He says it is an "overgrown chicken."

2. O'Connor says no other writer was hotter after the dollar than whom?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Mark Twain.
(d) Henry James.

3. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?
(a) Mini-tail.
(b) Underwear.
(c) Tripod.
(d) Gray hairs.

4. What author said that he writes romances, not novels?
(a) Hawthorne.
(b) Huxley.
(c) Poe.
(d) Orwell.

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

6. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?
(a) Natural.
(b) Anagogical.
(c) Undisguised.
(d) Palpable.

7. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Dante.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Plato.

8. What award did Percy Walker win?
(a) Georgia Writers Grant.
(b) Regional Book Prize.
(c) National Novelist Award.
(d) National Book Award.

9. 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.

10. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?
(a) Its tail.
(b) Its legs.
(c) Its bad attitude.
(d) Its coloring.

11. What artist was John Peale Bishop referring to when he claimed that you cannot say this person painted apples and tablecloth and say what he has painted?
(a) Gauguin.
(b) Redon.
(c) Cezanne.
(d) Rousseau.

12. Which of O'Connor's works does she use to show examples of hidden themes and symbols?
(a) A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
(b) The Violent Bear It Away.
(c) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(d) Wise Blood.

13. What does O'Connor says causes Southerners anguish?
(a) That the South is alienated.
(b) That the South is getting more like the rest of the country.
(c) That there are not enough jobs.
(d) That there are too many people in the South.

14. What is O'Connor's advice for writers who do not want to be regional?
(a) Move to an unfamiliar region.
(b) Be an American writer.
(c) Only write fiction.
(d) Only write fantasy and science fiction.

15. Where was Faulkner at home?
(a) Oxford.
(b) New York.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Savannah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did O'Connor see the ad for her first peafowl?

2. What did O'Connor tell a classroom that there was no such thing as?

3. How many peafowl did O'Connor buy from an ad in a paper?

4. Who called art "reason in making"?

5. O'Connor became frustrated because the writing students she addressed were looking for what?

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