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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. Who does O'Connor mention wrestles with an angel in the Bible?
(a) Samson.
(b) Aaron.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Jesse.
2. What is it generally supposed that Catholic writers use their fiction to do?
(a) Show that Protestanrs are wrong.
(b) Express the evils of the world.
(c) Prove the truth of Faith.
(d) Display a love of the Church.
3. In what year did a college publication print a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) 1927.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1942.
4. Who said that the morality of a piece of fiction depends on the amount of "felt life" that was in it?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) John Updike.
(c) Harper Lee.
(d) Henry James.
5. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) Of Men and War.
(b) A Bell for Adano.
(c) The Wall.
(d) Hiroshima.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to O'Connor, how is Redemption gained?
2. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
3. What kind of reader does O'Connor say "for all practical purposes" no longer exists?
4. Who is generally blamed when literature is not studied the right way?
5. How many fundamental truths do Catholic writers live and work in?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does O'Connor mean when she says that writers should heed the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas?
2. What does O'Connor say should be the result of the proper study of literature?
3. What story does O'Connor tell at the beginning of "Catholic Novelists and Their Readers"?
4. Why does O'Connor suspect that readers like it when the devil appears in fiction?
5. What does O'Connor say to those who say that Catholics are too restrained by their rigorous Catholic education to write creatively?
6. How does O'Connor feel about literature being taught by way of psychology?
7. When does O'Connor say the greatest dramas occur?
8. How does O'Connor say that fiction writers and English teachers have common ground?
9. What does O'Connor say about her book when she reviews it for class?
10. How did John Hersey defend his book "A Bell for Adano" in a letter to the Georgia state school superintendent?
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