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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the old man respond when his children asked him what O'Connor's peacock was?
(a) He says it is "a peacock and nothing more."
(b) He says it is "the king of the birds."
(c) He stands in silence before getting back in his car.
(d) He says it is an "overgrown chicken."

2. What does O'Connor think every writer would like to think of himself as?
(a) A genius.
(b) A realist.
(c) An artist.
(d) An original.

3. In what city did O'Connor's friend from Wisconsin buy a house?
(a) Chattanooga.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Ocala.
(d) Macon.

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

5. Where was the photographer from who visited O'Connor at her home?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) St. Louis.
(c) New York.
(d) Hollywood.

6. What did the schoolchildren who visited O'Connor's farm call the peacock's smaller, gray tail?
(a) Mini-tail.
(b) Tripod.
(c) Gray hairs.
(d) Underwear.

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

8. What did one of O'Connor's peafowl lose in the mowing machine?
(a) A wing.
(b) Its tail.
(c) An eye.
(d) A foot.

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

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

11. O'Connor says belief in what is a hindrance to writers?
(a) The American dream.
(b) Christian dogma.
(c) God.
(d) Good and evil.

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

13. Which of O'Connor's works does she use to show examples of hidden themes and symbols?
(a) The Violent Bear It Away.
(b) A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
(c) Everything That Rises Must Converge.
(d) Wise Blood.

14. Who said that the artist is concerned with the good of that which is made?
(a) St. Maro.
(b) St. Thomas.
(c) St. Patrick.
(d) St. Aaron.

15. What does O'Connor say there are more of in the South than rivers and streams?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Critics.
(c) Writers.
(d) Preachers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does O'Connor refer to as a "complete dramatic action"?

3. From what newspaper was the photographer who visited O'Connor at her home?

4. Who does O'Connor quote at the end of "The Fiction Writer and His Country"?

5. What did the photographer come to O'Connor's home to film?

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