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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Cezanne.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Gauguin.

2. How many sections does the story "Summer Dust" have?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

3. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?
(a) He and his family would eat them.
(b) He would sell them at festivals.
(c) He gave them to O'Connor.
(d) He would give them to needy children as gifts.

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

5. Who is the Dixie Limited?
(a) Twain.
(b) Welty.
(c) Capote.
(d) Faulkner.

6. 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.

7. Which of O'Connor's relatives refused to accept that her story about a man who leaves his wife at an eatery was complete?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her aunt.

8. What does O'Connor refer to as a "complete dramatic action"?
(a) A novel.
(b) A story.
(c) A movement.
(d) A scene.

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

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

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

12. Granville Hicks reviewed a novel by whom?
(a) Samuel Willard.
(b) Thomas Shepard.
(c) James Jones.
(d) John Wise.

13. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) Hollywood.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) New York.
(d) St. Louis.

14. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) First.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?

3. University students in the 1920s created a pamphlet with what title?

4. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?

5. How did the old man respond when his children asked him what O'Connor's peacock was?

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