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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 will always be a Catholic novel's center of meaning?
(a) Joy.
(b) Sin.
(c) Christ.
(d) The devil.
2. O'Connor knew an English teacher who asked students what the moral is to what novel?
(a) Moby Dick.
(b) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(c) Billy Budd.
(d) The Scarlet Letter.
3. Which character in fiction is usually disturbing to the reader?
(a) The poor man.
(b) The freak.
(c) The violent woman.
(d) The character who is physically ill.
4. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?
(a) Sociologists.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Students.
(d) Psychologists.
5. In what area of the United States do Catholic writers have the burden of regionalism to overcome?
(a) The Midwest.
(b) The South.
(c) The West.
(d) New England.
Short Answer Questions
1. What Christian denomination does O'Connor follow?
2. What does O'Connor say has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for?
3. What Catholic author wrote about Catholics who are vulgar, ignorant, and greedy?
4. What is the name for someone who believes in religious dualism and the freedom of the soul from matter through asceticism?
5. How does O'Connor believe a work of fiction should be studied?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does O'Connor say that fiction writers and English teachers have common ground?
2. What does O'Connor say about "The Foundling" written by Cardinal Spellman?
3. What does O'Connor say about her book when she reviews it for class?
4. How does O'Connor feel about bestseller lists?
5. Why does O'Connor write powerfully, especially about God?
6. Why is the fiction writer vulnerable to public criticism?
7. What does O'Connor say to those who say that Catholics are too restrained by their rigorous Catholic education to write creatively?
8. Why does O'Connor say the Protestant South is a good place for Catholic writers to write?
9. What does O'Connor say about being specific in her writing?
10. Why might a Catholic novelist feel angst about being both a Catholic and a fiction writer?
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