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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. O'Connor's friend told her that a bookstore clerk referred to "The Violent Bear It Away" with what title?
(a) The Bear That Ran Away With It.
(b) The Valiant Bloom Always.
(c) The One That Got Away.
(d) The Violets Bear Today.

2. What kind of answers do Catholics abide by?
(a) Instant.
(b) Complex.
(c) Rational.
(d) Sentimental.

3. Who said, "Purify the source"?
(a) Sartre.
(b) Mauriac.
(c) Perse.
(d) Camus.

4. How old was the deformed girl that nuns wrote a book about?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

5. When will a peacock regrow his feathers once he sheds?
(a) Near the first day of spring.
(b) After Christmas.
(c) After Memorial Day.
(d) After Easter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason did O'Connor give a female student who asked her why she writes?

2. What author said his aim as a fiction writer is to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?

3. O'Connor says that it is not fair to demand that novelists be what kind of novelists at the end of "The Teaching of Literature"?

4. In which novel does O'Connor say all its sentences could be examined with wonder?

5. Which writer did Henry James say does things in the way that take the most doing?

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