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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?
(a) A foot.
(b) Its tail.
(c) A wing.
(d) An eye.

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

3. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Yale.
(c) Vanderbilt.
(d) Harvard.

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

5. What ailment did Dr. Johnson's housekeeper have?
(a) She was missing a leg.
(b) She was blind.
(c) She was deaf.
(d) She was arthritic.

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

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

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

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

10. O'Connor's friend told her that a bookstore clerk referred to "The Violent Bear It Away" with what title?
(a) The Valiant Bloom Always.
(b) The One That Got Away.
(c) The Bear That Ran Away With It.
(d) The Violets Bear Today.

11. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?
(a) Christian dogma.
(b) God.
(c) Good and evil.
(d) The American dream.

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

13. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?
(a) Lawmakers.
(b) Advertising agencies.
(c) Preachers.
(d) Poets.

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

15. What does O'Connor say is the first reaction people have when they see a peacock's tail?
(a) Laughter.
(b) Tears.
(c) Silence.
(d) Gasp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?

2. How long does it take for a cock's plumage to attain its pattern?

3. What did an old woman cry when she finally saw the tail on O'Connor's peacock?

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

5. According to O'Connor, what do Northern authors consider everything written by Southerners?

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