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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) Catholic.
(c) Manichean.
(d) Bosnian.

5. Who said his aim as an artist was to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
(a) Twain.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Conrad.
(d) James.

6. What is the name of the college publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) Four Square.
(b) Four Seasons.
(c) Four Fifths.
(d) Four Quarters.

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

8. What must a writer's moral sense coincide with?
(a) His dramatic sense.
(b) Facts and figures.
(c) His sense of compassion.
(d) His sense of piety.

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

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

11. How does O'Connor believe a work of fiction should be studied?
(a) Technically.
(b) Sociologically.
(c) Psychologically.
(d) Grammatically.

12. What does the Catholic reader separate nature from?
(a) Grace.
(b) Faith.
(c) Love.
(d) Peace.

13. How often does the college publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers come out?
(a) Weekly.
(b) Quarterly.
(c) Monthly.
(d) Daily.

14. How many fundamental truths do Catholic writers live and work in?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to O'Connor, what does the fiction writer seem to have a revolting attachment to?

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

4. With what does O'Connor say there is a preoccupation in the work of Catholic writers of her time period?

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"?

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