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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

6. How many fundamental truths do Catholic writers live and work in?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

7. What Catholic author wrote about Catholics who are vulgar, ignorant, and greedy?
(a) Paul Hamilton Hayne,
(b) Walker Percy.
(c) J. F. Powers.
(d) Henry Timrod.

8. What family member of O'Connor's reviewed her novel for her high school class?
(a) Daughter.
(b) Niece.
(c) Sister.
(d) Cousin.

9. Who said, "Purify the source"?
(a) Perse.
(b) Sartre.
(c) Camus.
(d) Mauriac.

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

11. What is the name for someone who believes in religious dualism and the freedom of the soul from matter through asceticism?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Bosnian.
(c) Esoteric Christian.
(d) Manichean.

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

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

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

15. How often does the college publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers come out?
(a) Monthly.
(b) Weekly.
(c) Quarterly.
(d) Daily.

Short Answer Questions

1. O'Connor mentions instances where parents from what state object to their child's reading assignments?

2. O'Connor says a society is understood by what?

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

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

5. Who does O'Connor say South Boston belongs to?

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