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

2. Which of the following continues to be an integral part of Flannery's letters?
(a) Writing.
(b) All of these.
(c) Theology.
(d) Philosophy.

3. What is the title of this section?
(a) The Violent Bear it Away.
(b) The Sun Also Rises.
(c) The Peacock Blues.
(d) Something Wicked This Way Comes.

4. When Louise gets drunk she insists on ______________________.
(a) Making prank phone calls.
(b) Singing to everyone she sees.
(c) Polishing the sink with silver polish.
(d) Dancing nude.

5. Flannery has fears that her books _______________________.
(a) Will not be controversial.
(b) Will not be understood.
(c) Will not be bestsellers.
(d) Will be controversial.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A pattern begins to emerge with the first two letters of the sections being addressed to Cecil Dawkins and ____________.

3. In which of the following styles does Flannery write her letters?

4. Flannery makes an allusion to what sport when addressing Cecil's relationship with a university dean of women.

5. What does Flannery hope to complete by the end of the year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the title of this Part and why is it significant?

2. How does Flannery integrate formal and regional writing in her letters?

3. How does Flannery use humor in the incident involving the discovery of body parts?

4. What is unusual about Flannery's friend, Louise's, visit to a doctor for the flu?

5. What information does Flannery share about the god, Thor, in one of her letters to John Hawkes?

6. Explain how Flannery's humble work mirrors her simple lifestyle.

7. Explain Sally Fitzgerald's suggestion of why Flannery is working so diligently at this point in her life?

8. What fear about her book does Flannery share in a letter in this section?

9. What is the nature of the book on which Flannery plans to focus this year?

10. What is known about the last letter Flannery ever wrote?

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