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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what area of the United States do Catholic writers have the burden of regionalism to overcome?
(a) The West.
(b) The Midwest.
(c) New England.
(d) The South.

2. What family member of O'Connor's reviewed her novel for her high school class?
(a) Niece.
(b) Cousin.
(c) Sister.
(d) Daughter.

3. O'Connor presented materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at what college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Sarah Lawrence.
(d) Notre Dame.

4. Most people try to create art that has what kind of value?
(a) Utilitarian.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Monetary.

5. What were the subjects called when O'Connor was in high school?
(a) Courses.
(b) Activities.
(c) Topics.
(d) Adventures.

6. Who responds to a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers by saying "A Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not"?
(a) Brian McCarthy.
(b) Steve Spence.
(c) Philip Wylie.
(d) Tom Duepner.

7. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?
(a) Money.
(b) Sin.
(c) Anger.
(d) The devil.

8. Legend has it that St. Francis converted what?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A mouse.
(c) A snake.
(d) A bear.

9. Who does O'Connor say South Boston belongs to?
(a) Robert Lewis Taylor.
(b) Allen Drury.
(c) James Agee.
(d) Edwin O'Connor.

10. Who is the author that O'Connor says is not a good writer, but his intent should not be judged?
(a) Cardinal Hawkins.
(b) Cardinal O'Grady.
(c) Cardinal Mencia.
(d) Cardinal Spellman.

11. With what does O'Connor say there is a preoccupation in the work of Catholic writers of her time period?
(a) Sex.
(b) Happy endings.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Violence.

12. What writer does O'Connor say is an exception to the fact that Southern writers are not successfully cosmopolitan in fiction?
(a) Richard Ford.
(b) Lewis Nordan.
(c) Winston Groom.
(d) Katherine Anne Porter.

13. What does O'Connor say is the ultimate reality?
(a) The faith.
(b) The sin.
(c) The evil.
(d) The good.

14. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) Hiroshima.
(b) Of Men and War.
(c) A Bell for Adano.
(d) The Wall.

15. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) Of Mice and Men.
(b) East of Eden.
(c) Cannery Row.
(d) Tortilla Flats.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to O'Connor, how is Redemption gained?

2. Who said his aim as an artist was to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

3. O'Connor knew an English teacher who asked students what the moral is to what novel?

4. Who does O'Connor believe should do the evangelizing?

5. What book does O'Connor say is not well written but the author should not be judged by his intent?

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