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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, The Habit of Being : Chapter 2, Part II - Day In and Day Out 1953 - 1958 pgs 50 - 100.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where were some of O'Connor's letters taken?
(a) Her girlhood diaries.
(b) Her college papers.
(c) Her first poetry book.
(d) Her doctoral thesis.

2. Why does this person write an introduction for the book?
(a) She knows O'Connor personally.
(b) She was a college roommate of O'Connor's.
(c) She was O'Connor's publisher.
(d) She was O'Connor's sister.

3. Which is one of the first publications to pay Flannery for her writing?
(a) Ladies Home Journal.
(b) The Atlanta Constitution.
(c) The Kenyon Review.
(d) Elle Magazine.

4. Flannery's critics say that she _________________________.
(a) Has a long way to go to be a great writer.
(b) Is a dime store novelist.
(c) Writes what she gets paid to write.
(d) Will never be one of the greats.

5. How old was Flannery when her father died?
(a) 4.
(b) 8.
(c) 15.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Flannery when she moved to her mother's birthplace in Milledgeville, Georgia?

2. What is the name of Flannery's first novel?

3. What did Flannery think about the writing process?

4. In Georgia there are a lot of Americans with __________ surnames.

5. The writings in the book contain knowledge and awareness of O'Connor's development as __________________.

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