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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. O'Connor is told that some students believe that anything that cannot be done using what is not worth doing?
(a) A calculator.
(b) Algebra.
(c) A thesaurus.
(d) Figures.

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

3. 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) The Scarlet Letter.
(d) Billy Budd.

4. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Brown University.
(c) LaSalle College.
(d) Cornell University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said his aim as an artist was to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

2. What kind of answers do Catholics abide by?

3. What were the subjects called when O'Connor was in high school?

4. Who said, "Purify the source"?

5. What book does O'Connor say is not well written but the author should not be judged by his intent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does O'Connor feel about bestseller lists?

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

6. Why might a Catholic writer have to include more violence in his work than he is comfortable with?

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

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

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

10. Why might a Catholic novelist feel angst about being both a Catholic and a fiction writer?

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