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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. What country did Henry James like better than America?
(a) Canada.
(b) Ireland.
(c) England.
(d) Mexico.

2. What does O'Connor say fiction should deal with?
(a) Vague concepts.
(b) The subconscious.
(c) History.
(d) Reality.

3. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?
(a) St. Cyril.
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(c) Pope Leo XIII.
(d) Elvis Presley.

4. Students from what university created a pamphlet in the 1920s?
(a) Yale.
(b) Vanderbilt.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Cornell.

5. In which novel does O'Connor say all its sentences could be examined with wonder?
(a) The Great Gatsby.
(b) Uncle Tom's Cabin.
(c) Madame Bovary.
(d) The Pit and the Pendulum.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote an essay saying the woman of the future will know nothing of mystery or manners?

4. What is the name of O'Connor's posthumous book of stories?

5. What possession of O'Connor's mom did the peafowl eat systematically?

(see the answer key)

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