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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does O'Connor say that most people interested in writing are not interested in?
(a) Making money.
(b) Writing well.
(c) Writing for fun.
(d) Getting famous.

2. What type of people does O'Connor say Southerners can recognize?
(a) Freaks.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Intellectuals.
(d) Wealthy.

3. How long does it take for a cock's plumage to attain its pattern?
(a) 5 weeks.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 4 years.

4. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?
(a) A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
(b) Wise Blood.
(c) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(d) The Violent Bear It Away.

5. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?
(a) Br'er Rabbit.
(b) The Velvetine Rabbit.
(c) Peter Rabbit.
(d) The White Rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of O'Connor's works does she use to show examples of hidden themes and symbols?

2. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?

3. What does O'Connor say a writer needs but cannot get from a writing class?

4. What sort of eyes did O'Connor prefer chickens to have?

5. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does O'Connor say about the Manicheans in "The Nature and Aim of Fiction"?

2. What does O'Connor say about those who have the gift for writing?

3. How does O'Connor describe grotesque writing?

4. In what ways did the peafowl wreck the O'Connor farm?

5. How did a man and his five white-haired children react when they saw the peacock in the road?

6. How does O'Connor feel about the fiction writer using symbols?

7. What is the gist of an editorial written to Life magazine regarding writers?

8. What does O'Connor mean when she says a writer must find his location in order to do his best work?

9. How did the peafowl feel about O'Connor after nine years?

10. Why did the man who sold fence posts get rid of his peafowl?

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