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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?
(a) Dante.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Plato.
2. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?
(a) Second.
(b) Fourth.
(c) First.
(d) Third.
3. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?
(a) The White Rabbit.
(b) The Velvetine Rabbit.
(c) Br'er Rabbit.
(d) Peter Rabbit.
4. What is O'Connor's advice for writers who do not want to be regional?
(a) Be an American writer.
(b) Only write fantasy and science fiction.
(c) Move to an unfamiliar region.
(d) Only write fiction.
5. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?
(a) He and his family would eat them.
(b) He gave them to O'Connor.
(c) He would give them to needy children as gifts.
(d) He would sell them at festivals.
6. In what magazine did O'Connor read an editorial challenging her and other writers?
(a) Life.
(b) Southern Living.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Time.
7. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?
(a) The peahen.
(b) Children.
(c) Old women.
(d) Floridians.
8. What possession of O'Connor's mom did the peafowl eat systematically?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Bread loaves.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Pets.
9. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?
(a) Macon, Georgia.
(b) Gulf Shores, Alabama.
(c) Chattanooga, Tennessee.
(d) Eustis, Florida.
10. What does O'Connor says causes Southerners anguish?
(a) That there are too many people in the South.
(b) That the South is getting more like the rest of the country.
(c) That there are not enough jobs.
(d) That the South is alienated.
11. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?
(a) Write too abstractly, confusing readers.
(b) Write too much like British writers.
(c) Write about being poor.
(d) Write as if everyone in the country is rich.
12. What reason did O'Connor give a female student who asked her why she writes?
(a) "I don't write; I create."
(b) "It pays the bills."
(c) "I can't do anything else."
(d) "Because I'm good at it."
13. Who said that the artist is concerned with the good of that which is made?
(a) St. Maro.
(b) St. Aaron.
(c) St. Thomas.
(d) St. Patrick.
14. What ailment did Dr. Johnson's housekeeper have?
(a) She was deaf.
(b) She was blind.
(c) She was arthritic.
(d) She was missing a leg.
15. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?
(a) Wise Blood.
(b) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(c) The Violent Bear It Away.
(d) A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?
2. What does O'Connor refer to as a "complete dramatic action"?
3. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?
4. Where was Faulkner at home?
5. In what city did O'Connor's friend from Wisconsin buy a house?
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