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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. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?
(a) A chicken.
(b) O'Connor.
(c) The Gothic Revival style of the home.
(d) A prize-winning pig.

2. What volunteer fire department was Mr. Montgomery a member of?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) Crawford.
(d) Jackson.

3. Who is the Dixie Limited?
(a) Twain.
(b) Capote.
(c) Welty.
(d) Faulkner.

4. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?
(a) Who speaks for the South today?
(b) Who speaks for America today?
(c) Who speaks for women today?
(d) Who speaks for the poor today?

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?

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

4. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?

5. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?

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