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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's friend told her that a bookstore clerk referred to "The Violent Bear It Away" with what title?
(a) The One That Got Away.
(b) The Bear That Ran Away With It.
(c) The Violets Bear Today.
(d) The Valiant Bloom Always.

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

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

4. What did O'Connor see in the book "Believe It or Not"?
(a) A chicken that mated with a turkey.
(b) A cat who nursed a hen.
(c) A rooster who lived with no head.
(d) A woman who owned 900 chickens.

5. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?
(a) A foot.
(b) A wing.
(c) Its tail.
(d) An eye.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does O'Connor say is the first reaction people have when they see a peacock's tail?

2. What sort of eyes did O'Connor prefer chickens to have?

3. Where did O'Connor see the ad for her first peafowl?

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

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

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