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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Baron von Hugel?
(a) A Pope.
(b) A French scientist.
(c) A Catholic scholar.
(d) A Protestant preacher.

5. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of meaning?
(a) Joy.
(b) Sin.
(c) Christ.
(d) The devil.

6. In what year did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1958.

7. What is the name of the college publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) Four Fifths.
(b) Four Seasons.
(c) Four Quarters.
(d) Four Square.

8. 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) Lewis Nordan.
(c) Winston Groom.
(d) Richard Ford.

9. Whose pig does not know what bacon is?
(a) Mr. Sosebee.
(b) Mr. Harper.
(c) Mr. McRae.
(d) Mr. Jarrell.

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

11. What country did Henry James like better than America?
(a) Canada.
(b) England.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Ireland.

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

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

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

15. What book does O'Connor say is not well written but the author should not be judged by his intent?
(a) Redeemer in the Womb.
(b) Surrender of an Empire.
(c) The Precious Blood.
(d) The Foundling.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connor knew an English teacher who asked students what the moral is to what novel?

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

3. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?

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 nickname for the South?

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