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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. At the beginning of "Total Effect and the Eighth Grade," how many instances does O'Connor mention parents objecting to their child's reading assignments?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

2. Whose pig does not know what bacon is?
(a) Mr. Sosebee.
(b) Mr. McRae.
(c) Mr. Jarrell.
(d) Mr. Harper.

3. Who responds to a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers by saying "A Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not"?
(a) Steve Spence.
(b) Brian McCarthy.
(c) Philip Wylie.
(d) Tom Duepner.

4. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?
(a) Money.
(b) Anger.
(c) The devil.
(d) Sin.

5. What family member of O'Connor's reviewed her novel for her high school class?
(a) Cousin.
(b) Sister.
(c) Niece.
(d) Daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that the morality of a piece of fiction depends on the amount of "felt life" that was in it?

2. O'Connor knew an English teacher who asked students what the moral is to what novel?

3. How does O'Connor believe a work of fiction should be studied?

4. With what does O'Connor say there is a preoccupation in the work of Catholic writers of her time period?

5. How many fundamental truths do Catholic writers live and work in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did John Hersey defend his book "A Bell for Adano" in a letter to the Georgia state school superintendent?

2. How does O'Connor feel about literature being taught by way of psychology?

3. How does O'Connor say that fiction writers and English teachers have common ground?

4. What does O'Connor say about "The Foundling" written by Cardinal Spellman?

5. What does O'Connor say about being specific in her writing?

6. Why does O'Connor say the Protestant South is a good place for Catholic writers to write?

7. How does O'Connor say she believes fiction should be taught?

8. What does O'Connor say about absolutes in fiction, particularly religious fiction?

9. Why does O'Connor suspect that readers like it when the devil appears in fiction?

10. What does O'Connor say should be the result of the proper study of literature?

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