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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. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?
(a) Gulf Shores, Alabama.
(b) Macon, Georgia.
(c) Chattanooga, Tennessee.
(d) Eustis, Florida.

2. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Updike.

3. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?
(a) Natural.
(b) Anagogical.
(c) Undisguised.
(d) Palpable.

4. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?
(a) Poe.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Matheson.

5. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) New York.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) Atlanta.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the old man respond when his children asked him what O'Connor's peacock was?

2. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?

3. O'Connor's friend told her that a bookstore clerk referred to "The Violent Bear It Away" with what title?

4. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?

5. O'Connor says no other writer was hotter after the dollar than whom?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What dream did O'Connor have at the end of "The King of the Birds"?

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

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

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 Southern writing being labeled as "grotesque"?

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

8. Why does O'Connor believe Southern writers are anguished?

9. 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?

10. What does O'Connor say about reality in fiction writing?

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