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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?
(a) The devil.
(b) Sin.
(c) Anger.
(d) Money.

2. O'Connor knew an English teacher who asked students what the moral is to what novel?
(a) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(b) The Scarlet Letter.
(c) Moby Dick.
(d) Billy Budd.

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

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

5. 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) Angst.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Excitement.

6. 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) Winston Groom.
(c) Richard Ford.
(d) Katherine Anne Porter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Who is the author that O'Connor says is not a good writer, but his intent should not be judged?
(a) Cardinal Mencia.
(b) Cardinal O'Grady.
(c) Cardinal Spellman.
(d) Cardinal Hawkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said if you want to write stories not to drive the poor from your doorstep?

2. When does O'Connor say she figured out what fiction was?

3. What does O'Connor say one should do if they want topics?

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

5. Who said art does not necessitate restrictions?

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