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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 Catholic author wrote about Catholics who are vulgar, ignorant, and greedy?
(a) J. F. Powers.
(b) Paul Hamilton Hayne,
(c) Walker Percy.
(d) Henry Timrod.

2. What was the title of the course that O'Connor addressed in The Nature and Aim of Fiction?
(a) How the Writer Writes.
(b) Inside the Novelist's Mind.
(c) The Writing Process.
(d) How Novels are Written.

3. O'Connor says no other writer was hotter after the dollar than whom?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Henry James.
(d) Mark Twain.

4. Who does O'Connor say South Boston belongs to?
(a) Allen Drury.
(b) Edwin O'Connor.
(c) James Agee.
(d) Robert Lewis Taylor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Thomas Mann said that the grotesque is what style?

2. What item of clothing did Colonel Eggbert wear?

3. What ailment did Dr. Johnson's housekeeper have?

4. O'Connor is told that some students believe that anything that cannot be done using what is not worth doing?

5. Legend has it that St. Francis converted what?

(see the answer key)

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