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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?
(a) A chicken.
(b) O'Connor.
(c) A prize-winning pig.
(d) The Gothic Revival style of the home.

3. Who called art "reason in making"?
(a) St. Mark.
(b) St. Kea.
(c) St. Petroc.
(d) St. Thomas.

4. What ailment did Dr. Johnson's housekeeper have?
(a) She was missing a leg.
(b) She was deaf.
(c) She was arthritic.
(d) She was blind.

5. Where did O'Connor's first set of peafowl come from?
(a) Eustis, Florida.
(b) Gulf Shores, Alabama.
(c) Chattanooga, Tennessee.
(d) Macon, Georgia.

6. What did the editorial that challenged American writers say American writers do?
(a) Write about being poor.
(b) Write too much like British writers.
(c) Write as if everyone in the country is rich.
(d) Write too abstractly, confusing readers.

7. What kind of vision does O'Connor say a fiction writer needs to develop?
(a) Undisguised.
(b) Palpable.
(c) Anagogical.
(d) Natural.

8. What reason did O'Connor give a female student who asked her why she writes?
(a) "Because I'm good at it."
(b) "I don't write; I create."
(c) "I can't do anything else."
(d) "It pays the bills."

9. What did O'Connor feel like when she heard about The School Southern Degeneracy?
(a) The Velvetine Rabbit.
(b) Peter Rabbit.
(c) The White Rabbit.
(d) Br'er Rabbit.

10. About how long did the telephone repairman wait to see a peacock strut?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 15 minutes.
(d) One hour.

11. What sort of eyes did O'Connor prefer chickens to have?
(a) One big and one little.
(b) Very small and oval-shaped.
(c) A shade of light blue.
(d) One green and one orange.

12. Besides the telephone repairman, who did O'Connor say is indifferent to the peacock's display?
(a) Children.
(b) The peahen.
(c) Floridians.
(d) Old women.

13. How much was a pair of peafowl that O'Connor saw in the paper?
(a) $150.
(b) $20.
(c) $65.
(d) $30.

14. What possession of O'Connor's mom did the peafowl eat systematically?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Bread loaves.
(d) Pets.

15. What question did the editorial that challenged O'Connor ask?
(a) Who speaks for women today?
(b) Who speaks for the poor today?
(c) Who speaks for the South today?
(d) Who speaks for America today?

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does O'Connor say a writer needs but cannot get from a writing class?

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

4. What did an old woman cry when she finally saw the tail on O'Connor's peacock?

5. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?

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