Mystery and Manners; Occasional Prose Test | Final Test - Easy

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Mystery and Manners; Occasional Prose Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 117 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who said if you want to write stories not to drive the poor from your doorstep?
(a) Kipling.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Melville.
(d) Garrison.

4. 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) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

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

6. O'Connor says a society is understood by what?
(a) Its elderly.
(b) Its location.
(c) Its stories.
(d) Its government.

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 O'Connor think English teachers can help change?
(a) The best-seller list.
(b) The number of college students who have all A's.
(c) The rate of high school drop outs.
(d) The education systems in third world countries.

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

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

11. 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) Intellectual.
(c) American.
(d) All-encompassing.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Most people try to create art that has what kind of value?

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

3. What book does O'Connor say is not well written but the author should not be judged by his intent?

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

5. According to O'Connor, how is Redemption gained?

(see the answer keys)

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