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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Catholic Novelists and Their Readers and The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it generally supposed that Catholic writers use their fiction to do?
(a) Display a love of the Church.
(b) Prove the truth of Faith.
(c) Express the evils of the world.
(d) Show that Protestanrs are wrong.

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

3. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?
(a) Children.
(b) Old women.
(c) The peahen.
(d) Floridians.

4. O'Connor became frustrated because the writing students she addressed were looking for what?
(a) Advice.
(b) To copy the British.
(c) A mentor.
(d) A formula.

5. When will a peacock regrow his feathers once he sheds?
(a) Near the first day of spring.
(b) After Christmas.
(c) After Memorial Day.
(d) After Easter.

Short Answer Questions

1. For a writer of fiction, everything has its testing point in what body part?

2. Where was Faulkner at home?

3. Who said art does not necessitate restrictions?

4. What does O'Connor say the serious writer is interested in?

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

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