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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 Take My Stand.
(b) I'll Stand My Ground.
(c) I'll Stand and Be Heard.
(d) I'll Put My Foot Down.

2. How did the old man respond when his children asked him what O'Connor's peacock was?
(a) He says it is an "overgrown chicken."
(b) He says it is "a peacock and nothing more."
(c) He stands in silence before getting back in his car.
(d) He says it is "the king of the birds."

3. How did the man selling fence posts get rid of his peafowl?
(a) He would give them to needy children as gifts.
(b) He gave them to O'Connor.
(c) He would sell them at festivals.
(d) He and his family would eat them.

4. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Plato.
(d) Dante.

5. What did the magazine editorial that challenged American writers say literature lacks?
(a) The joy of life.
(b) Supernatural elements.
(c) Energy.
(d) Violence.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?

3. How long can a peacock live?

4. How much was a pair of peafowl that O'Connor saw in the paper?

5. What item of clothing did Colonel Eggbert wear?

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