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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. With what does O'Connor say there is a preoccupation in the work of Catholic writers of her time period?
(a) Sex.
(b) Violence.
(c) Happy endings.
(d) The Bible.

2. Who said his aim as an artist was to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
(a) Twain.
(b) James.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Joyce.

3. Who wrote an essay saying the woman of the future will know nothing of mystery or manners?
(a) Edgar Allen Poe.
(b) Graham Greene.
(c) Henry James.
(d) John Steinbeck.

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

5. Who wrote that the roots of the eye are in the heart?
(a) Desiderius Erasmus.
(b) Karl Rahner.
(c) Romano Guardini.
(d) James Keller.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?

2. What college is the home of a publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?

3. What Catholic author wrote about Catholics who are vulgar, ignorant, and greedy?

4. Who is the author that O'Connor says is not a good writer, but his intent should not be judged?

5. What does O'Connor say has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What story does O'Connor tell at the beginning of "Catholic Novelists and Their Readers"?

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

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

4. Why does O'Connor write powerfully, especially about God?

5. What does O'Connor say about her book when she reviews it for class?

6. What problem does O'Connor say Catholic writers face?

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

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

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

10. When does O'Connor say the greatest dramas occur?

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