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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Carol Johnson?
(a) A publishing assistant.
(b) A poetess.
(c) A caterer.
(d) A newspaper reporter.

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

3. What is Flannery's marital status?
(a) Single.
(b) Separated.
(c) Married.
(d) Divorced.

4. Flannery tells the Fitzgeralds that she is not good at ______________.
(a) Fasting.
(b) Dieting.
(c) Driving.
(d) Knitting.

5. What does Flannery tell Cecil Dawson to do with rejection slips?
(a) Make grocery lists on them.
(b) Ignore them.
(c) Line a bird cage with them.
(d) Make paper airplanes out of them.

6. Flannery admits to not being very good at ____________.
(a) Biology.
(b) Math.
(c) Physics.
(d) Spelling.

7. What skill does Flannery seem to do well?
(a) Baking.
(b) Sewing.
(c) Cleaning.
(d) Praying.

8. Who is one of Flannery's earliest contacts?
(a) Sally Ann McBride.
(b) Annie McKee.
(c) Lauren McGee.
(d) Elizabeth McKee.

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

10. Who does Flannery hope will become her editor at Harcourt Brace?
(a) David Lawson.
(b) Denver Lindley.
(c) Douglas Lawton.
(d) Dallas Liston.

11. What does Flannery need to do in order to pass her Driver's Test?
(a) Practice more.
(b) Buy a car.
(c) Study more.
(d) Get a tutor.

12. The writings in the book contain knowledge and awareness of O'Connor's development as __________________.
(a) A writer.
(b) All of these.
(c) A thinker.
(d) A woman.

13. In what year was Flannery O'Connor born?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1952.

14. What type of transportation does Flannery require in New York City?
(a) Limousine.
(b) Train.
(c) Bus.
(d) Taxi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following describes Flannery's life in Milledgeville?

2. Why does this person write an introduction for the book?

3. Flannery comments on a woman who reads the existentialists and claims to have lost her __________________.

4. What is distinctive about Flannery's illness?

5. According to Flannery, Southerners think that the only way back to God is through _____________.

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