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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. In what month did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?
(a) March.
(b) February.
(c) April.
(d) January.

2. What kind of answers do Catholics abide by?
(a) Instant.
(b) Rational.
(c) Sentimental.
(d) Complex.

3. What writer does O'Connor say is an exception to the fact that Southern writers are not successfully cosmopolitan in fiction?
(a) Richard Ford.
(b) Lewis Nordan.
(c) Katherine Anne Porter.
(d) Winston Groom.

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

5. Who said art does not necessitate restrictions?
(a) Saint Ignatius Loyola.
(b) Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Saint John Bosco.
(d) Saint Gerard Majella.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor think English teachers can help change?

2. Legend has it that St. Francis converted what?

3. Most people try to create art that has what kind of value?

4. In what area of the United States do Catholic writers have the burden of regionalism to overcome?

5. In what year did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the God that O'Connor says she believes in.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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