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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connor mentions instances where parents from what state object to their child's reading assignments?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Florida.

2. Which character in fiction is usually disturbing to the reader?
(a) The poor man.
(b) The violent woman.
(c) The character who is physically ill.
(d) The freak.

3. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Brown University.
(c) LaSalle College.
(d) Cornell University.

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

5. O'Connor says that it is not fair to demand that novelists be what kind of novelists at the end of "The Teaching of Literature"?
(a) American.
(b) Influential.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) All-encompassing.

6. What type of artist does O'Connor say is most deviled by the public?
(a) Painter.
(b) Fiction writer.
(c) Poet.
(d) Musician.

7. Who said, "Purify the source"?
(a) Sartre.
(b) Perse.
(c) Camus.
(d) Mauriac.

8. In what year did a college publication print a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1927.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1955.

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

10. According to O'Connor, how is Redemption gained?
(a) Through Christ's life.
(b) Through Christ's birth.
(c) Through Christ's resurrection.
(d) Through Christ's death.

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

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

13. Who said if you want to write stories not to drive the poor from your doorstep?
(a) Kipling.
(b) Garrison.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Melville.

14. Which of O'Connor's relatives did a man ask to relay a message to her about her type of characters?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her cousin.

15. What does O'Connor say has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for?
(a) The Church.
(b) Religion.
(c) Structure.
(d) Mercy.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connor says the Catholic reader forgets that there is a similarity between the sentimental and what?

2. What kind of reader does O'Connor say "for all practical purposes" no longer exists?

3. Whose pig does not know what bacon is?

4. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?

5. What writer does O'Connor say is an exception to the fact that Southern writers are not successfully cosmopolitan in fiction?

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