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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. How many peafowl did O'Connor buy from an ad in a paper?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

2. What is O'Connor's advice for writers who do not want to be regional?
(a) Be an American writer.
(b) Only write fantasy and science fiction.
(c) Only write fiction.
(d) Move to an unfamiliar region.

3. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Yale.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Vanderbilt.

4. What award did Percy Walker win?
(a) Regional Book Prize.
(b) National Novelist Award.
(c) National Book Award.
(d) Georgia Writers Grant.

5. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?
(a) An artist.
(b) An original.
(c) A realist.
(d) A genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What author said that he writes romances, not novels?

2. Where was Faulkner at home?

3. What color was Colonel Eggbert?

4. Who does O'Connor believe truly speaks for the country?

5. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does O'Connor describe grotesque writing?

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

9. How does the peahen act when she lays eggs?

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

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