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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. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?
(a) The American dream.
(b) Good and evil.
(c) God.
(d) Christian dogma.

2. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?
(a) Underwear.
(b) Gray hairs.
(c) Mini-tail.
(d) Tripod.

3. How long does it take for a cock's plumage to attain its pattern?
(a) 5 weeks.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 6 months.

4. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?
(a) Write too much like British writers.
(b) Write about being poor.
(c) Write too abstractly, confusing readers.
(d) Write as if everyone in the country is rich.

5. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?
(a) Emerson.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Poe.
(d) Matheson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was the helmet of the telephone repairman that came to O'Connor's farm?

2. From what newspaper was the photographer who visited O'Connor at her home?

3. How did the old man respond when his children asked him what O'Connor's peacock was?

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

5. What did the telephone repairman say he thought O'Connor's peacock could outrun?

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