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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does O'Connor say is not well written but the author should not be judged by his intent?
(a) Redeemer in the Womb.
(b) Surrender of an Empire.
(c) The Foundling.
(d) The Precious Blood.

2. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of meaning?
(a) Joy.
(b) The devil.
(c) Sin.
(d) Christ.

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

4. Who does O'Connor believe should do the evangelizing?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Writers.
(c) Evangelists.
(d) Artists.

5. 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) Steve Spence.
(b) Philip Wylie.
(c) Tom Duepner.
(d) Brian McCarthy.

6. What emotion does the Catholic novelist sometimes feel when he views what he is supposed to do as a Catholic and as a novelist?
(a) Joy.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Excitement.
(d) Angst.

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

8. Who said that the morality of a piece of fiction depends on the amount of "felt life" that was in it?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Oscar Wilde.
(c) Harper Lee.
(d) John Updike.

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

10. Who is generally blamed when literature is not studied the right way?
(a) The parents.
(b) The government.
(c) The students.
(d) The teachers.

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

12. 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) All-encompassing.
(b) Influential.
(c) Intellectual.
(d) American.

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

14. What is it generally supposed that Catholic writers use their fiction to do?
(a) Express the evils of the world.
(b) Show that Protestanrs are wrong.
(c) Display a love of the Church.
(d) Prove the truth of Faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many fundamental truths do Catholic writers live and work in?

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

3. Who said, "Purify the source"?

4. Who does O'Connor mention wrestles with an angel in the Bible?

5. O'Connor is told that some students believe that anything that cannot be done using what is not worth doing?

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