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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what area of the United States do Catholic writers have the burden of regionalism to overcome?
(a) New England.
(b) The South.
(c) The West.
(d) The Midwest.

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

4. How often does the college publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers come out?
(a) Quarterly.
(b) Daily.
(c) Monthly.
(d) Weekly.

5. What does the Catholic reader separate nature from?
(a) Faith.
(b) Peace.
(c) Love.
(d) Grace.

6. How many fundamental truths do Catholic writers live and work in?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

7. Who said his aim as an artist was to render the highest possible justice to the visible universe?
(a) Twain.
(b) Joyce.
(c) James.
(d) Conrad.

8. When does O'Connor say she figured out what fiction was?
(a) While in middle school.
(b) While getting a Master's degree.
(c) While attending community college.
(d) While in high school.

9. What John Hersey novel in O'Connor's examples did parents seem to object to?
(a) A Bell for Adano.
(b) Hiroshima.
(c) The Wall.
(d) Of Men and War.

10. Who said art does not necessitate restrictions?
(a) Saint Ignatius Loyola.
(b) Saint John Bosco.
(c) Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(d) Saint Gerard Majella.

11. O'Connor says a society is understood by what?
(a) Its location.
(b) Its elderly.
(c) Its stories.
(d) Its government.

12. What does O'Connor say has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for?
(a) Structure.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Religion.
(d) The Church.

13. What is the name of the college publication that printed a symposium on the subject of the lack of Catholic writers?
(a) Four Square.
(b) Four Fifths.
(c) Four Quarters.
(d) Four Seasons.

14. 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"?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) All-encompassing.
(c) Influential.
(d) American.

15. In what month did O'Connor present materials from "The Church and the Fiction Writer" during a talk at a college?
(a) February.
(b) January.
(c) March.
(d) April.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does O'Connor believe a work of fiction should be studied?

2. Who is the author that O'Connor says is not a good writer, but his intent should not be judged?

3. What were the subjects called when O'Connor was in high school?

4. What emotion does the Catholic novelist sometimes feel when he views what he is supposed to do as a Catholic and as a novelist?

5. According to O'Connor, what does the fiction writer seem to have a revolting attachment to?

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