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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medication is Louise given when she finally goes to the doctor?
(a) Cymbalta.
(b) Penicillin.
(c) Diflucan.
(d) Amoxicillin.

2. On what holiday does Flannery write to "A" to tell her that she is sick in bed?
(a) Easter.
(b) Christmas Day.
(c) New Year's Day.
(d) Fourth of July.

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

4. Flannery is told that _________________ is the character with whom most readers identify in A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND.
(a) The chef.
(b) The Grandmother.
(c) The traveling salesman.
(d) The nun.

5. Louise is ill and visits the doctor for the first time at the age of ____________.
(a) 27.
(b) 43.
(c) 56.
(d) 35.

6. What did Flannery's mother do with the last letter Flannery wrote?
(a) Mailed it after Flannery's death.
(b) Put it in a safe.
(c) Burned it.
(d) Donated it to a library.

7. What gift had Cecil Dawkins sent to Flannery and her mother?
(a) Earrings.
(b) Wine.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Books.

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

9. In the first letter of this section, Flannery writes that she and Maryat are both _______________.
(a) Doing better.
(b) Writers.
(c) Spinsters.
(d) Stubborn.

10. What medical procedure does Flannery have coming up?
(a) Carpal Tunnel surgery.
(b) Gallbladder surgery.
(c) Facelift.
(d) Blood transfusion.

11. What does Flannery tell Sally Fitzgerald about the people who work on her mother's farm?
(a) They like to listen to her stories.
(b) They are illiterate.
(c) They are a two-car family.
(d) They are migrant workers.

12. What does Flannery show no indication of pursuing or hoping for?
(a) Romance.
(b) Health.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Salvation.

13. What type of lifestyle did Flannery have?
(a) Lavish.
(b) Humble.
(c) Exotic.
(d) Frugal.

14. About which philosopher is Flannery seemingly very knowledgeable?
(a) Immanuel Kant.
(b) Simone de Beauvoir.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Plato.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Out of the many people to whom Flannery writes, who receives only one letter?

2. Who writes an introduction to this chapter of letters?

3. What are the new animals in Flannery's life at this point?

4. When Louise gets drunk she insists on ______________________.

5. How did Flannery deal with her illness in her letters?

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