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

2. What is Flannery's mother doing while Flannery writes a letter to Cecil Dawkins.
(a) Hanging out laundry.
(b) Feeding chickens.
(c) Fixing water pipes.
(d) Washing the car.

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

4. The majority of the letters in this section are written to Cecil and _____________.
(a) Robert Giroux.
(b) Sally Fitzgerald.
(c) Truman Capote.
(d) A.

5. How many pages of Flannery's new novel can her mother read at one time?
(a) About two chapters.
(b) About two pages.
(c) Half of it.
(d) Cover to cover.

Short Answer Questions

1. What health improvement does Flannery have in February of 1964?

2. What medical procedure does Flannery have coming up?

3. Flannery's mother wishes that the people who work on her farm could get _________________.

4. The letters in this section cover the years of ___________________.

5. What does Flannery do when she feels better?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is known about Flannery's romantic or personal life as revealed through her letters?

2. What pattern begins to emerge in the letters regarding the addressees?

3. How does Sally Fitzgerald's being a friend of Flannery's enriched the experience of the letters for the reader?

4. What does Flannery write about conversion to her friend, "A?"

5. How does Flannery use sarcasm to congratulate a friend on winning a major book award?

6. How does Flannery show that her characters become very real for her?

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

8. How is Flannery's health as the year 1963 comes to a close?

9. What is Flannery's perspective on helping other writers?

10. How does Flannery say she reacted when seeing the scope of the changes on her manuscript?

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