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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does O'Connor say the serious writer is interested in?
(a) The habit of art.
(b) Pleasing the reader.
(c) Getting outside of their comfort zone.
(d) Studying and learning.

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

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

4. How long does it take for a cock's plumage to attain its pattern?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 5 weeks.

5. What color was the helmet of the telephone repairman that came to O'Connor's farm?
(a) Orange.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Red.
(d) Blue.

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

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

8. Who is the author of "Summer Dust"?
(a) Erin Carden.
(b) Caroline Gordon.
(c) Linda Gray.
(d) Amy Matthews.

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

10. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Updike.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Whitman.

11. What does O'Connor say is a word that sounds good in anyone's mouth that no book jacket can do without?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Gratitude.

12. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?
(a) Chattanooga, Tennessee.
(b) Eustis, Florida.
(c) Gulf Shores, Alabama.
(d) Macon, Georgia.

13. In which novel does O'Connor say all its sentences could be examined with wonder?
(a) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(b) The Pit and the Pendulum.
(c) The Great Gatsby.
(d) Madame Bovary.

14. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?
(a) A bus.
(b) A roadrunner.
(c) An Oldsmobile.
(d) A cheetah.

15. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?
(a) Pope Leo XIII.
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(c) St. Cyril.
(d) Elvis Presley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Granville Hicks reviewed a novel by whom?

2. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?

3. 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?

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

5. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?

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