View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of O'Connor's posthumous book of stories?
(a) A View of the Woods.
(b) The Enduring Chill.
(c) Greenleaf.
(d) Everything That Rises Must Converge.

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

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

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

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

7. In what area of the United States do Catholic writers have the burden of regionalism to overcome?
(a) The West.
(b) New England.
(c) The South.
(d) The Midwest.

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

9. What author does O'Connor point to in the first sentence of The Church and the Fiction Writer?
(a) J.D. Salinger.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) Harper Lee.
(d) Graham Greene.

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

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

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

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

14. When does O'Connor say she figured out what fiction was?
(a) While in high school.
(b) While attending community college.
(c) While getting a Master's degree.
(d) While in middle school.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does O'Connor say humanity lost its innocence?

3. What emotion does the Catholic novelist sometimes feel when he views what he is supposed to do as a Catholic and as a novelist?

4. What kind of reader does O'Connor say "for all practical purposes" no longer exists?

5. Who was Baron von Hugel?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 412 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample