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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason did O'Connor give a female student who asked her why she writes?
(a) "Because I'm good at it."
(b) "I can't do anything else."
(c) "I don't write; I create."
(d) "It pays the bills."

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

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

4. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?
(a) The White Rabbit.
(b) Br'er Rabbit.
(c) The Velvetine Rabbit.
(d) Peter Rabbit.

5. Who said that the artist is concerned with the good of that which is made?
(a) St. Patrick.
(b) St. Thomas.
(c) St. Aaron.
(d) St. Maro.

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

7. Who wrote the collection of stories called "Rotting Hill"?
(a) Willard Linus.
(b) William Louis.
(c) Wendall Lane.
(d) Wyndham Lewis.

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

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

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

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

12. Who called art "reason in making"?
(a) St. Kea.
(b) St. Petroc.
(c) St. Mark.
(d) St. Thomas.

13. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?
(a) Preachers.
(b) Critics.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Writers.

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

15. In what city did O'Connor's friend from Wisconsin buy a house?
(a) Macon.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Chattanooga.
(d) Ocala.

Short Answer Questions

1. Granville Hicks reviewed a novel by whom?

2. In which novel does O'Connor say all its sentences could be examined with wonder?

3. What does O'Connor refer to as a "complete dramatic action"?

4. How many peafowl did O'Connor buy from an ad in a paper?

5. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?

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