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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does O'Connor say one should do if they want topics?
(a) Read a work of fiction.
(b) Read a biography.
(c) Listen to the radio.
(d) Read a newspaper.

5. What part of Catholicism does O'Connor say should help a person penetrate realities?
(a) Communion.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Dogma.
(d) Salvation.

6. Who said art does not necessitate restrictions?
(a) Saint John Bosco.
(b) Saint Gerard Majella.
(c) Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(d) Saint Ignatius Loyola.

7. When does O'Connor say humanity lost its innocence?
(a) When we are born.
(b) During the Fall.
(c) During Christ's death.
(d) During Christ's resurrection.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is the name for someone who believes in religious dualism and the freedom of the soul from matter through asceticism?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Bosnian.
(c) Manichean.
(d) Esoteric Christian.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Freedom is of no use without what?

2. What must a writer's moral sense coincide with?

3. What does O'Connor say is the ultimate reality?

4. 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"?

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

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