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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Bosnian.
(d) Manichean.

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

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

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

6. At the beginning of "Total Effect and the Eighth Grade," how many instances does O'Connor mention parents objecting to their child's reading assignments?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

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

8. Who is generally blamed when literature is not studied the right way?
(a) The teachers.
(b) The parents.
(c) The government.
(d) The students.

9. What Christian denomination does O'Connor follow?
(a) Methodism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Presbyterian.

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

11. O'Connor says the Catholic reader forgets that there is a similarity between the sentimental and what?
(a) The romantic.
(b) The righteous.
(c) The emotional.
(d) The obscene.

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

13. What writer does O'Connor say is an exception to the fact that Southern writers are not successfully cosmopolitan in fiction?
(a) Katherine Anne Porter.
(b) Richard Ford.
(c) Winston Groom.
(d) Lewis Nordan.

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

15. 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 brother.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country did Henry James like better than America?

2. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?

3. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?

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

5. Who does O'Connor believe should do the evangelizing?

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