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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What author does O'Connor point to in the first sentence of The Church and the Fiction Writer?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Harper Lee.
(c) J.D. Salinger.
(d) Graham Greene.

2. What Catholic author wrote about Catholics who are vulgar, ignorant, and greedy?
(a) J. F. Powers.
(b) Paul Hamilton Hayne,
(c) Henry Timrod.
(d) Walker Percy.

3. What does O'Connor say one should do if they want topics?
(a) Listen to the radio.
(b) Read a work of fiction.
(c) Read a biography.
(d) Read a newspaper.

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

5. Who wrote an essay saying the woman of the future will know nothing of mystery or manners?
(a) Graham Greene.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Edgar Allen Poe.

6. What kind of answers do Catholics abide by?
(a) Instant.
(b) Rational.
(c) Sentimental.
(d) Complex.

7. What is the name for someone who believes in religious dualism and the freedom of the soul from matter through asceticism?
(a) Esoteric Christian.
(b) Manichean.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Bosnian.

8. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Students.
(c) Psychologists.
(d) Sociologists.

9. What part of Catholicism does O'Connor say should help a person penetrate realities?
(a) Baptism.
(b) Communion.
(c) Dogma.
(d) Salvation.

10. In what year did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1960.

11. O'Connor is told that some students believe that anything that cannot be done using what is not worth doing?
(a) A calculator.
(b) Algebra.
(c) Figures.
(d) A thesaurus.

12. Who wrote that the roots of the eye are in the heart?
(a) Desiderius Erasmus.
(b) James Keller.
(c) Romano Guardini.
(d) Karl Rahner.

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

14. What country did Henry James like better than America?
(a) Canada.
(b) England.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Mexico.

15. O'Connor says the Catholic reader forgets that there is a similarity between the sentimental and what?
(a) The obscene.
(b) The righteous.
(c) The romantic.
(d) The emotional.

Short Answer Questions

1. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?

2. Whose pig does not know what bacon is?

3. What does the Catholic reader separate nature from?

4. O'Connor presented materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at what college?

5. O'Connor mentions instances where parents from what state object to their child's reading assignments?

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