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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 did the magazine editorial that challenged American writers say literature lacks?
(a) Supernatural elements.
(b) Energy.
(c) Violence.
(d) The joy of life.

2. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?
(a) A foot.
(b) A wing.
(c) An eye.
(d) Its tail.

3. Who called art "reason in making"?
(a) St. Thomas.
(b) St. Kea.
(c) St. Mark.
(d) St. Petroc.

4. Where was Faulkner at home?
(a) New York.
(b) Savannah.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Oxford.

5. What color was Colonel Eggbert?
(a) Gray.
(b) Red.
(c) White.
(d) Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how long did the telephone repairman wait to see a peacock strut?

2. According to O'Connor, what do Northern authors consider everything written by Southerners?

3. What type of people does O'Connor say Southerners can recognize?

4. What award did Percy Walker win?

5. O'Connor became frustrated because the writing students she addressed were looking for what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does O'Connor feel about short stories?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does O'Connor describe grotesque writing?

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

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

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

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