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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Flannery need a limo in New York?
(a) She entertains a celebrity.
(b) She is on crutches.
(c) She has a red carpet affair.
(d) She wants to ride in style for once in her life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of the newest connections with whom Flannery exchanges letters in this section?

2. Flannery's letters in this section are ________________.

3. What is the meaning of Manichean?

4. What is distinctive about Flannery's illness?

5. What does Flannery use for painting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What angst does Flannery experience regarding a new editor and the reimbursement of an advance?

2. Who are some of the people to whom Flannery writes during this section?

3. What is revealed about Flannery's lifestyle in this section?

4. What writing advice does Flannery give to Cecil Dawkins?

5. How old was Flannery when her father died and where did the family live?

6. What event occurs to validate Flannery's Celtic roots?

7. When and where was Flannery born and where did she live as a child?

8. Who writes the introduction for the book and what does she find so intriguing about the letters?

9. How does Flannery separate Catholics from Catholicism?

10. What is Flannery's lifestyle after she leaves Yaddo?

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