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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. About how long did the telephone repairman wait to see a peacock strut?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) One hour.

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

5. 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) Redon.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Cezanne.
(d) Gauguin.

6. What does O'Connor say a writer needs but cannot get from a writing class?
(a) An epiphany.
(b) Competence.
(c) Vision.
(d) Experience.

7. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?
(a) Cabbage.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Startena.
(d) Cat food.

8. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?
(a) A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
(b) Wise Blood.
(c) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(d) The Violent Bear It Away.

9. What sort of eyes did O'Connor prefer chickens to have?
(a) Very small and oval-shaped.
(b) One big and one little.
(c) One green and one orange.
(d) A shade of light blue.

10. What does O'Connor say fiction should deal with?
(a) The subconscious.
(b) History.
(c) Vague concepts.
(d) Reality.

11. How many peafowl did O'Connor have after nine years?
(a) 70.
(b) 60.
(c) 40.
(d) 50.

12. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?
(a) Write as if everyone in the country is rich.
(b) Write about being poor.
(c) Write too much like British writers.
(d) Write too abstractly, confusing readers.

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

14. What color was Colonel Eggbert?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Gray.
(d) White.

15. What did O'Connor tell a classroom that there was no such thing as?
(a) A Work of Fiction.
(b) The Writer.
(c) A Critical Response.
(d) An American Novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What possession of O'Connor's mom did the peafowl eat systematically?

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

3. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?

4. How many sections does the story "Summer Dust" have?

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

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