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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. When will a peacock regrow his feathers once he sheds?
(a) After Christmas.
(b) After Easter.
(c) After Memorial Day.
(d) Near the first day of spring.

2. What possession of O'Connor's mom did the peafowl eat systematically?
(a) Pets.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Bread loaves.

3. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?
(a) Pope Leo XIII.
(b) St. Cyril.
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(d) Elvis Presley.

4. 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.

5. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Cabbage.
(c) Cat food.
(d) Startena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

2. What artist was John Peale Bishop referring to when he claimed that you cannot say this person painted apples and tablecloth and say what he has painted?

3. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?

4. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?

5. Who called art "reason in making"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What makes Georgia writers different from writers from New York or Hollywood According to O'Connor?

3. How does O'Connor feel about people trying to analyze her work?

4. What observations does O'Connor make about the student manuscripts she read?

5. Why does O'Connor advise that if an author is called a Southern writer he is best to rid himself of the title as soon as possible?

6. How does O'Connor feel about the peahens?

7. Why does O'Connor believe that Christian writers will best be able to discern the grotesque?

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

9. How does having lost the Civil War make Southerners better writers, according to O'Connor?

10. Why does O'Connor think some people pretend to be unaffected by the peacocks?

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