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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of this section?
(a) The Best Years of our Lives.
(b) The Year That Was.
(c) The Last Year, 1964.
(d) The Last of the Best.

2. What Georgia weather does Flannery report on the last day of 1963?
(a) Ice storm.
(b) Torrential rains.
(c) Tornadoes.
(d) Snow storm.

3. Flannery urges Maryat Lee to improve her writing by ___________________.
(a) Taking some courses.
(b) Writing every day.
(c) "Coming" to the South.
(d) Taking a break for awhile.

4. Which author does Flannery encourage Alfred Corn to read?
(a) Teilhard de Chardin.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Agatha Christie.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

5. With whom did Flannery live for the last months of her life?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her fiance.

6. At this point in the book, it is clear ____________________.
(a) That Flannery is very ill.
(b) That Flannery is tired of writing.
(c) What type of information Flannery shares with which people.
(d) That Flannery is getting married.

7. What does Flannery note that she sees that seems gruesome at first?
(a) Body parts.
(b) Chain saws.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Lots of blood.

8. Who is the new person to whom Flannery writes in 1962?
(a) Charlotte Greves.
(b) Charlotte Grey.
(c) Charlotte Gafford.
(d) Charlotte Garrison.

9. Which of the following is a topic in a letter written to Louise Abbot?
(a) All of these.
(b) Free will.
(c) Penance.
(d) Faith.

10. Which god does Flannery write about in this section?
(a) Thor.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Baldr.
(d) Odin.

11. The letters in this section cover the years of ___________________.
(a) 1963-1966.
(b) 1960-1964.
(c) 1959-1963.
(d) 1959-1960.

12. Flannery makes an allusion to what sport when addressing Cecil's relationship with a university dean of women.
(a) Tennis.
(b) Football.
(c) Rugby.
(d) Golf.

13. What is the name for the corrected manuscripts that Flannery returned to her publisher?
(a) Tear sheets.
(b) Flats.
(c) Margins.
(d) Galleys.

14. How did Flannery deal with her illness in her letters?
(a) She ignored it.
(b) She whined a lot.
(c) She kept an upbeat attitude.
(d) She asked for help.

15. What emerges as one of Flannery O'Connor's traits?
(a) She apologized whether or not she was to blame.
(b) She smoked like a chimney.
(c) She swore all the time.
(d) She was able to maintain long term relationships.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Flannery do when she feels better?

2. How much money does Flannery tell Cecil will have already been deducted from his pay from his publisher?

3. Which of Flannery's friends wears a Russian costume of a large hat and black cape?

4. What does Flannery treat herself to when she completed a first draft of a novel?

5. Flannery is told that _________________ is the character with whom most readers identify in A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND.

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