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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 color was Colonel Eggbert?
(a) Brown.
(b) Gray.
(c) Red.
(d) White.

2. What grade were the children who visited O'Connor's farm to see her peafowl?
(a) Third.
(b) Fourth.
(c) First.
(d) Second.

3. What type of people does O'Connor say Southerners can recognize?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Intellectuals.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) Freaks.

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

5. For what work did O'Connor receive the Georgia Writers' Association Scroll?
(a) A Good Man Is Hard To Find.
(b) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(c) The Violent Bear It Away.
(d) Wise Blood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does O'Connor mention wrestles with an angel in the Bible?

2. Who was O'Connor told should be the model of balance for the novelist?

3. Who was Baron von Hugel?

4. How many peafowl did O'Connor have after nine years?

5. Who responds to a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers by saying "A Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not"?

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