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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 does O'Connor say a writer needs but cannot get from a writing class?
(a) An epiphany.
(b) Experience.
(c) Competence.
(d) Vision.

2. In what magazine did O'Connor read an editorial challenging her and other writers?
(a) Time.
(b) Life.
(c) Newsweek.
(d) Southern Living.

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

4. What was the title of the course that O'Connor addressed in The Nature and Aim of Fiction?
(a) Inside the Novelist's Mind.
(b) How the Writer Writes.
(c) How Novels are Written.
(d) The Writing Process.

5. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?
(a) A prize-winning pig.
(b) O'Connor.
(c) The Gothic Revival style of the home.
(d) A chicken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor say fiction should deal with?

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

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

4. How old was O'Connor when a photographer visited her in "The King of the Birds"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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