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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the purpose of the Editorial Note?
(a) To cite references.
(b) To ask for donations.
(c) To express appreciation.
(d) To provide guidelines.

2. Why does Flannery not use paint brushes to paint?
(a) She thinks they are too small.
(b) She dislikes washing them.
(c) She can't get the sizes she needs.
(d) She can't get Parisian brushes in Georgia.

3. Even though Flannery lives in a rural area, she ____________________.
(a) Is not going to stay there.
(b) Has New York sensibilities.
(c) Knows the city.
(d) Cannot wait to leave.

4. What is distinctive about Flannery's illness?
(a) It is curable.
(b) It is cancerous.
(c) It comes and goes.
(d) It is contagious.

5. From which college did Flannery graduate?
(a) University of Georgia.
(b) Georgia Tech.
(c) Savannah College of Art and Design.
(d) Georgia State College for Women.

6. Which of the following does Flannery have to manage in her life?
(a) Weak resistance to injury and illness.
(b) All of these.
(c) Delicate constitution.
(d) Lack of vigor.

7. Who does Flannery say gave food baskets to the poor?
(a) The Catholic Church.
(b) The Rotary Club.
(c) The Ku Klux Klan.
(d) The Junior League.

8. Who is the publisher with whom Flannery works the most?
(a) Phineas Simon.
(b) Catharine Carver.
(c) Annette Hall.
(d) James Harcourt.

9. Who is the mysterious person to whom Flannery writes several letters?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) A.
(c) Johnny Mercer.
(d) Mamie Eisenhower.

10. What fowl dish does Flannery's mother cook in this section?
(a) Duck.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Goose.
(d) Guinea hen.

11. What can be said about these introductory sections of the book?
(a) They are rambling.
(b) They are boring.
(c) They are worthless.
(d) They are brief.

12. What is the name of the house where Flannery lives?
(a) Anastasia.
(b) Andalusia.
(c) Appaloosa.
(d) Arborside.

13. Flannery comments on a woman who reads the existentialists and claims to have lost her __________________.
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Mind.
(c) Sense of humor.
(d) Judgmentalism.

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

15. Who is the priest of Irish descent with whom Flannery communicates?
(a) Father Ralph Guinness.
(b) Father Tommy O'Brien.
(c) Father John McCown.
(d) Father Patrick O'Leary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Flannery think young writers should be treated?

3. Flannery writes that the Ku Klux Klan lit a cross on the lawn of ________________.

4. How many letters are contained in this section?

5. Who are the mutual friends that Flannery shares with William Sessions?

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