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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 John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) The Wall.
(b) A Bell for Adano.
(c) Hiroshima.
(d) Of Men and War.

2. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Third.
(d) First.

3. With what does O'Connor say there is a preoccupation in the work of Catholic writers of her time period?
(a) Happy endings.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Sex.
(d) Violence.

4. In what year did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1960.

5. What artist was John Peale Bishop referring to when he claimed that you cannot say this person painted apples and tablecloth and say what he has painted?
(a) Gauguin.
(b) Cezanne.
(c) Redon.
(d) Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does O'Connor say acts as a middleman between readers and writers?

2. O'Connor knew an English teacher who asked students what the moral is to what novel?

3. O'Connor presented materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at what college?

4. How does O'Connor believe a work of fiction should be studied?

5. O'Connor says a society is understood by what?

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