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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 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?
(a) Redon.
(b) Gauguin.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Cezanne.

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

3. Who is the author of "Summer Dust"?
(a) Amy Matthews.
(b) Caroline Gordon.
(c) Erin Carden.
(d) Linda Gray.

4. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?
(a) A roadrunner.
(b) A cheetah.
(c) An Oldsmobile.
(d) A bus.

5. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?
(a) Its coloring.
(b) Its bad attitude.
(c) Its legs.
(d) Its tail.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of O'Connor's relatives refused to accept that her story about a man who leaves his wife at an eatery was complete?

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

3. What does O'Connor says causes Southerners anguish?

4. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?

5. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does O'Connor react to the editorial's cry for more spiritual writing, showing the joys of life?

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

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

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

6. How does O'Connor feel about the average person that is interested in writing?

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

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

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

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

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