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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. O'Connor knew an English teacher who asked students what the moral is to what novel?
2. What will always be a Catholic novel's center of destruction?
3. Who responds to a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers by saying "A Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not"?
4. Which Steinbeck novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
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 does O'Connor mean when she says that writers should heed the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas?
2. How does O'Connor feel about literature being taught by way of psychology?
3. What does O'Connor say about "The Foundling" written by Cardinal Spellman?
4. How did John Hersey defend his book "A Bell for Adano" in a letter to the Georgia state school superintendent?
5. Why does O'Connor write powerfully, especially about God?
6. How does O'Connor say that fiction writers and English teachers have common ground?
7. Why does O'Connor suspect that readers like it when the devil appears in fiction?
8. What problem does O'Connor say Catholic writers face?
9. What does O'Connor say about being specific in her writing?
10. Describe the God that O'Connor says she believes in.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explore O'Connor's view of English teachers. What does O'Connor say their job is, in regards to helping students understand literature? Why does O'Connor say that English teachers are avoiding teaching English? What methods does she talk about that teachers use? What is the problem with these methods?
Essay Topic 2
What do you think O'Connor means when she says Southerners write about freaks because they can still recognize them? What does she mean when she talks about the "whole man"? How does this tie into the idea that Southerners tend to be grotesque-style writers? What does she seem to mean when she uses the term "freak?"
Essay Topic 3
Explore the challenges a Catholic writer might face. What problems do Catholic writers face, especially when writing for a secular audience? How might the set beliefs of Catholics affect their vision when creating fiction? What does O'Connor say to these claims? How might these beliefs make a Catholic fiction writer better?
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