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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fiction Writer & His Country, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction and The Regional Writer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. University students in the 1920s created a pamphlet with what title?
(a) I'll Stand My Ground.
(b) I'll Take My Stand.
(c) I'll Stand and Be Heard.
(d) I'll Put My Foot Down.

2. From what newspaper was the photographer who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) The Weekly Report.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) USA Today.
(d) Pathe News.

3. Where was Faulkner at home?
(a) New York.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Nashville.
(d) Savannah.

4. In what city did O'Connor's friend from Wisconsin buy a house?
(a) Chattanooga.
(b) Ocala.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Macon.

5. What did the telephone repairman comment on when O'Connor asked what he thinks of the peacock?
(a) Its legs.
(b) Its tail.
(c) Its coloring.
(d) Its bad attitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did an old woman cry when she finally saw the tail on O'Connor's peacock?

2. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?

3. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?

4. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?

5. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?

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