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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does O'Connor say has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for?
(a) Religion.
(b) The Church.
(c) Structure.
(d) Mercy.

5. Most people try to create art that has what kind of value?
(a) Truthful.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Utilitarian.
(d) Monetary.

6. According to O'Connor, how is Redemption gained?
(a) Through Christ's birth.
(b) Through Christ's death.
(c) Through Christ's resurrection.
(d) Through Christ's life.

7. What does O'Connor say is the ultimate reality?
(a) The good.
(b) The faith.
(c) The sin.
(d) The evil.

8. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Cornell University.
(c) Brown University.
(d) LaSalle College.

9. Freedom is of no use without what?
(a) Taste.
(b) Charm.
(c) Justice.
(d) Rights.

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

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

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

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

14. Who does O'Connor mention wrestles with an angel in the Bible?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Jesse.
(c) Aaron.
(d) Samson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Catholic author wrote about Catholics who are vulgar, ignorant, and greedy?

2. O'Connor says the Catholic reader forgets that there is a similarity between the sentimental and what?

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

4. Which of O'Connor's relatives did a man ask to relay a message to her about her type of characters?

5. What is the name of O'Connor's posthumous book of stories?

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