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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For a writer of fiction, everything has its testing point in what body part?
(a) The hand.
(b) The mouth.
(c) The ear.
(d) The eye.

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

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

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

5. What is the nickname for the South?
(a) The Bible Area.
(b) The Bible District.
(c) The Bible Layer.
(d) The Bible Belt.

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

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

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

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

10. What is the name of O'Connor's posthumous book of stories?
(a) A View of the Woods.
(b) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(c) The Enduring Chill.
(d) Greenleaf.

11. What kind of reader does O'Connor say "for all practical purposes" no longer exists?
(a) Nonfiction readers.
(b) Short story readers.
(c) Fiction readers.
(d) Poetry readers.

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

13. According to O'Connor, what does the fiction writer seem to have a revolting attachment to?
(a) The future.
(b) The past.
(c) The West.
(d) Poverty.

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

15. In what month did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?
(a) April.
(b) February.
(c) January.
(d) March.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the college publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?

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

3. What does O'Connor think English teachers can help change?

4. Who wrote in his notebook: "If I had not known you, I would not have found you"?

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

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