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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 volunteer fire department was Mr. Montgomery a member of?
(a) Crawford.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) Birmingham.
(d) Jackson.
2. What award did Percy Walker win?
(a) National Novelist Award.
(b) Georgia Writers Grant.
(c) Regional Book Prize.
(d) National Book Award.
3. What did O'Connor tell a classroom that there was no such thing as?
(a) A Work of Fiction.
(b) An American Novel.
(c) A Critical Response.
(d) The Writer.
4. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?
(a) Natural.
(b) Palpable.
(c) Anagogical.
(d) Undisguised.
5. What does O'Connor say is a word that sounds good in anyone's mouth that no book jacket can do without?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Kindness.
(d) Compassion.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the magazine editorial that challenged American writers say literature lacks?
2. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?
3. What reason did O'Connor give a female student who asked her why she writes?
4. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
5. Where was Faulkner at home?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does O'Connor describe grotesque writing?
2. How does O'Connor feel about the fiction writer using symbols?
3. How did the peafowl feel about O'Connor after nine years?
4. What does O'Connor mean when she says a writer must find his location in order to do his best work?
5. What dream did O'Connor have at the end of "The King of the Birds"?
6. Why does O'Connor believe that Christian writers will best be able to discern the grotesque?
7. How does O'Connor feel about Southern writing being labeled as "grotesque"?
8. In what ways did the peafowl wreck the O'Connor farm?
9. Why did the man who sold fence posts get rid of his peafowl?
10. How does O'Connor feel about the peahens?
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