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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Church and the Fiction Writer and Novelist and Believer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While some call "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" grotesque, what does O'Connor call it?
(a) Simplistic.
(b) Literal.
(c) Symbolic.
(d) Conceptual.

2. Who is generally blamed when literature is not studied the right way?
(a) The parents.
(b) The students.
(c) The government.
(d) The teachers.

3. Who is the author of "Summer Dust"?
(a) Erin Carden.
(b) Caroline Gordon.
(c) Amy Matthews.
(d) Linda Gray.

4. What did O'Connor say her peafowl would eat?
(a) Cabbage.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Cat food.
(d) Startena.

5. For a writer of fiction, everything has its testing point in what body part?
(a) The eye.
(b) The mouth.
(c) The hand.
(d) The ear.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many peafowl did O'Connor buy from an ad in a paper?

2. What volunteer fire department was Mr. Montgomery a member of?

3. What must a writer's moral sense coincide with?

4. In what year did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?

5. What did O'Connor tell a classroom that there was no such thing as?

(see the answer key)

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